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Ex-CBI Roundup

Enlisted men's service club bar at Myitkyina, Burma, 1945. 330th Troop Carrier. See alternative image here.
Armament crew, 16th Fighter Squadron, in front of "armament shack," Chenggong (Chengkung), China, during WWII. About 15 miles out of Kunming.
Causeway for convoy trucks to be built to the left of this temporary wood boardwalk somewhere in the CBI during WWII. Photo by Leroy Nordt.
African-American servicemen--Sgt. Smith, Allen, Jones, Pon, Spencer, Turner, Wilson--of the advanced medical detachment of the 21st Quartermaster Regiment. In the Burma during WWII.
GIs with Zhou Enlai in Yan'an in October 1944, standing in front of C-47. Photo from Colonel W. J. Peterkin.
Karachi Museum in 1943, during WWII. Photo from Joe Evins.
Marilynne and Maddie Caskey in the CBI during WWII.
Californians of the 425th Bomb Squadron and WASC record "Yanks In The Orient" for later transmission in the US. Kunming, China, November, 1944. M.C. was Lt. Bert Parks, later of post-war fame as the M. C. of the Miss America Pageant. Photo from Robert L. Cowan.
Sgt. Elmer Palkowitz, Radio Communication Service Group, 1311th AAFBU, Gaya, sitting in a black-white checked "Follow-Me" jeep in India during WWII. Photo from R. F. Simpson.