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FOURTEENTH AIRFORCE PHOTOGRAPHER, FIRST AMERICAN TO ENTER LIUCHOW
HEADQUARTERS, FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE, CHINA --- Cpl. James C. Bowermaster, of 2608, Arctic Ave., Atlantic City, New Jersey, Fourteenth Air Force photographer, was the first American soldier to enter Liuchow after the Japs evacuated the city and the airbase there 30 June. Travelling through the impassable countryside by motorcycle, he brought back the first set of pictures showing American engineers and Chinese coolies working to make...
James C. Bowermaster poses with an unidentified Chinese soldier on his motorcycle on his way to Liuchow to photograph the former Japanese base there.