14th Air Force

From: Public Relations Office Fourteenth Air Force Code 07041420/J Release On Rcpt Cleared Goldberg USFCT -FIRST PICTURES FROM REOCCUPIED LIUCHOW AREA- Former Fourteenth Air Force Base Fourteenth Air Force Headquarters, In China-- This is the former Fourteenth Air Force base at Liuchow as Americans accompanying the Chinese Ground forces found it upon their arrival, after the Japanese had evacuated it...

August 2, 1944: No "A" card needed, but the difficulties of filing the cavernous gas tanks of a C-47 cargo plane make "stateside" rationing problems child's play. From US Government sources.

Chinese officers attending the Chinese General Staff School at a 14th Air Force base somewhere in China... The object of the lecture is a P-40 fighter. From the U.S. Government sources.

Major Gen. Charles B. Stone, and another officer, riding a 341st Bomb Group, 14th Air Force, jeep during a visit to Yangkai on the August 29, 1945. The jeep has stenciled "Chabua" (India), however groups and materials moved around, so it is not surprising to see this jeep in China, especially by the summer of 1945.

In recognition of his outstanding combat theater duties as recreational director, a direct 2nd Lieutenant commission has been given on the field to Cpl. Lee Wilson, husband of Mrs. Dorothy Wilson, 437 N Ardmore St., Los Angeles, Cal., headquarters of Maj Gen C. L. Chennault’s Fourteenth Air Force announced recently. Lt. Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wilson, 619...

It’s a water buffalo, China’s beast of burden, which Ol Melvin Sisk, prominent former Gresham, Tex., Chamber of Commerce manager, is handling with expert care somewhere in China. It’s far from being a Texas longhorn, says Cpl Sisk, who should know, being a former fair and rodeo manager. Cpl. Sisk, son of Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Sisk, 707 College...

An American (astride pony) with a Chinese escort and supplies. This is may be James C. Bowermaster, Fourteenth Air Force photographer. Image from U. S. Government official sources.

(This item about Finley Howard Ganoe copied with appreciation from Gary Fields at http://www.geocities.com/heartland/acres/4783/hero.html in 2007, and originally written over 10 years before that. If anyone has additional images or information to provide regarding Mr. Ganoe, please contact Patrick Lucas at pat@rshonor.org) HOMETOWN HERO Finley Howard Ganoe March 8th, 1924 ~ January 12th, 1943 "The Department of War told me...

GIs pose next to artwork of the tail of B-24 "Open For Business" of the 308th Bombardment Group. The name "J. J. Frost" is listed on the gun window.

'Unidentified remains in a field.' Southwest of Liuchow, fighters of the Fourteenth Air Force caught a cavalry column headed towards Liuchow following the Japanese retreat after Ichigo. The Japanese did not have time to bury their dead and the remains of horses and horsemen lay scattered throughout the valley.