Large Chinese Crowd Enjoying Antics Of Photographer

A wonderful image from the Walter S. Polchlopek collection--a local crowd, probably in the county seat not far from Yangkai (Yangjie) air base in Yunnan province, China, enjoying the entertainment of inscrutable foreigners doing funny things in public, that is, they are enjoying the public goofing around by the photographer who is standing raised above the crowd, maybe simply on an American jeep (as in the entry here).  Some expressions (below) really speak to the nature of the interaction.

 

 

 

 

 

Walter S. Polchlopek, Corporal, was lost on May 20, 1944, over the sea near the south east coast of China, after a B-24 mission to strike Japanese shipping.

 

See more about Walter S. Polchlopek here, and about the loss of the whole crew here.

 

Image also appears in the collection of Bert A. Krawczyk here, and is marked as happening in Chengdu, Sichuan province.