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Alice Kim Chong (1909-1972; Chinese names 张秀金 and 张秀俊) was one of Claire Chennault’s two female interpreters at Kunming between 1943 and 1945. Here they are outside the HQ building at Kunming in 1943. Eloise Witwer, Alice’s roommate and best friend, at left. Alice Kim Chong (1909-1972) at right. Alice Chong was American-Born Chinese, born on Kauai, and educated (B.A...

Local people in Burma near the 797th Engineer Forestry Company--a woman. During WWII.

Celebrities visit and perform at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII: Mary Landa and Ruth Dennis on far left, and Ann Sheridan third from right, during visit medical staff, likely at Yangkai.

Celebrities visit and perform at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII: Hollywood actres on left, Opera singer Lily Pons in the center, medical staff on right.

1st Lt. Addie Newland, an Army Nurse assigned to the Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, receives Air Medal from General. C. L. Chennault in the CBI during WWII.

.50 cal machine gun being removed at Nanning Air Base during WWII by women laborers. 16 November 1944. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Jeanne Porche Morrisey, a flight nurse in India in 1945, posing with a snow leopard and unknown man. Photo by Mildred Miller Barsby, flight nurse of 803rd MAES at Chabua.

GIs enjoy refreshments---handed out by a female Red Cross service worker---at a truck parked at the Dinjan air base control tower (62nd AACS), in 1944. 3rd Combat Cargo. Donald Thielen, Crowley, Stephanson, Henry, Gallione, Carrolson, Snyder. Photo from Donald Thielen.

Nurse at New Delhi Hospital during WWII. Lt. Betty Cafferty.

GIs and flight nurse (probably) on a transport plane. In the CBI during WWII.