14th Air Force

Ferry and footbridge 13 miles east of Ping Yang (平阳镇), which the Japanese had used during their retreat towards Liuzhou. Crossings like this one were bottlenecks that allowed attacks by 14th Air Force planes and Chinese ground troops. During WWII.

Lt. Colonel Wright Hiatt, Winchester, Indiana, and Capt. Berwyn Fry, 7314 Bennett Ave., Chicago, Ill., Engineers with the 14Th Air Force, and a Chinese worker, with two of the Japanese mines removed from the air strip, at Liuzhou (Liuchow), China.

Important road junction at Datang (大唐) given up by the Japanese as they retreated and withdrew to the north from Nanning through Liuzhou.

A wrecked Japanese airplane left at Liuzhou after the Japanese retreat after Ichigo. See GIs inspecting this plane here.

Crew of the C-47 that landed by moonlight on a China road exactly as wide as the undercarriage, and nearly took off the next morning.

Flag raising ceremony at new HQ for Col. Clayton B. Claasen's East China Wing, 14th Air Force. 1st Sgt.Clinton E. Shipley and Master Sergeant Robert A. Landgraf raised the flag.

Ingenious bicycle created by L.t Raymon J. Sweezy, Jr., a pilot in a Troop Carrier Squadron of the 14th Air Force in the CBI. Lt. Sweezy used a regular GI bicycle and a motor salvaged at the evacuation of Guilin. Behind him, the body of an aircraft (probably a C-47) has been converted to storage or a workshop.

Pauline Frederick of Western Newspaper Union discusses the war in China with General Pao, while Captain William T. Randolph looks on. In the CBI during WWII.

Scene of the workings of the Fighter Control Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, 14th Air Force, as the team works to plot and intercept Japanese planes. Left to right: Capt. Glade C. Burton, Capt. Thomas E. Stenton, Col. Louis R. Hughes, Jr., Capt. Dale D. Desper, S/Sgt. Robert E. O'Meara, Cpl. James E. Bell, Capt. Spencer Lansdown, M/Sgt. Herman K. Rabinowe...

GIs dig slit trench in China during WWII, as local Chinese man looks on. James F. Porter, in center with pick, is digging because of a penalty for infraction of regulations.