14th Air Force

Runway being repaired at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, after the Japanese had retreated after Ichigo.

Group of US generals and Chinese officials gathered at Burma Road opening celebration in Kunming, China, on February 4, 1945. Official dignitaries at the ceremony included, on the Chinese side, such figures as General Lung Yun, Governor of Yunnan Province, Gen. Wang Yu-cho, General Ho Ying-Chin, and Commissioner Miao Yun-tai. On the American side was Major General Gilbert Xavier Cheves...

Capt. Albert Parr of the Fourteenth Air force makes a broad-jump at an American Forces track meet held in China during WWII.

A boxing match between 14th Air Force soldiers Mark M. Conn, Fred Andrews, and Johnny Babic. Sadly Fred Andrews died from complications from an operation shortly after the war finished, and he had returned to civilian life in Oregon, on 24 Mar 1946.

S/Sgt. Ira M. Brown, Corning, Iowa, receives Purple Heart from Col. D. L. Clark, Standing bedside are Lt. Col. A. A. Leonidoff, Col. J. C. Kennedy, and Lt. Col. John Groupman. According to report in his hometown paper, The Adams County Free Press (Iowa), on March 15, 1945, S/Sgt. Brown had been wounded in battle, and had been a gunner...

Busting bridges such as this one south of Sulien (possibly Silian 思练镇 today) slowed down retreating Japanese giving Chinese ground forcers opportunity to inflict more casualties. Bridge busting has been a speciality of fliers of the 14th Air Force. Japanese forces retreated over this road towards Liuzhou.

From: Public Relations Office Fourteenth Air Force Code 07041430/B Release On Rcpt Cleared Goldberg USFCT -FIRST PICTURES FROM REOCCUPIED LIUCHOW AREA- Valley of the Dead Fourteenth Air Force Headquarters, In China-- Here in the Valley of the Dead, southwest of Liuchow, fighters of the Fourteenth Air Force caught a cavalry column headed towards Liuchow. Japanese did not have time to...

See this image with different caption here. Excited civilians applaud and surround American GIs who have just returned to Liuzhou on the heels of the retreating Japanese upon the failure of the Ichigo Campaign. "From: Public Relations Office Fourteenth Air Force Code 07041420-4 Release On Rcpt Cleared Goldberg USFCT -FIRST PICTURES FROM REOCCUPIED LIUCHOW AREA- Civilians Prepare to Go Home...

From: Public Relations Office Fourteenth Air Force Code 070414200 Release On Rcpt Cleared Goldberg USFCT -FIRST PICTURES FROM REOCCUPIED LIUCHOW AREA- Medical Supplies Arrive at Ping Yang Fourteenth Air Force Headquarters, In China-- After the Japanese retreated from the area between Nanning and Liuchow American forces brought in equipment and hospital supplies, First American convoy is received at Ping Yang...

From: Public Relations Office Fourteenth Air Force Code 07041420/C Release On Rcpt Cleared Goldberg USFCT -FIRST PICTURES FROM REOCCUPIED LIUCHOW AREA- Damaged Bridge Delays Japanese Retreat Fourteenth Air Force Headquarters, In China-- One of three bridges out 2 miles south of Sulien (probably Silian 思练镇 today) which slowed down 2000 Japanese who were retreated from this area near Liuchow. Japanese...