air raid

Pyramid-shaped air raid shelter used by Chennault in Kunming during WWII, in the midst of an air raid. In this image, Chennault is standing toward left, looking at the Japanese bombing out of scene of the left. In the middle, an American GI makes plots on a map board. Air vents can be seen protruding from the top, and garden...

Japanese bombing of Kunming, December, 1943. The dirt pyramids are bomb bunkers. Image likely by Hal Geer.

CBI-44-60576 30 Sept 44 Photo by Pfc J.C. Bowermaster Five Japanese bombers struck the Liuzhou airbase on the 29th of September and destroyed this B-24 and a gas dump, as well as a C-46 transport plane. During a fourty-five minute raid the was the only serious damage suffered.