evacuation/retreat

Chinese refugee waits with a bucket for hot water to drip from a steam train engine at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugees shelter from the hot sun under paper umbrellas at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

A Chinese refugee has made a tenuous and dangerous bed on the framework hanging below at train car. At the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Exhausted and overheated Chinese refugees at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

The facilities at the Hengyang airbase burn as the allies retreat in the face of the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944.

Chinese workers and Nationalist soldiers build a fortified bunker at a street corner in a town in Guangxi province, during WWII, in the summer or fall of 1944 during the Japanese push south in the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugees take a meal in front of the train engine in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugee--a young girl in this case--tends a cooking fire to boil water next to the train tracks in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese wait at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refuges tends a cooking fire to boil water next to the train tracks in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.