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FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-L FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT CHINESE HELP PUT LIUCHOW BASE BACK INTO OPERATION FOURTEENTH AIR BASE HEADQUARTERS -- IN CHINA -- Chinese workers from Liuchow report to work at the former Fourteenth Air Force Base there, which the Japanese evacuated on 30 May. Japanese left the former American airbase...

FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-E FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT CHINESE HELP REPAIR LIUCHOW AIRSTRIP FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, IN CHINA-- When the Japanese left the former Fourteenth Air Force Base at Liuchow, they left it heavily mined and pockmarked with bomb craters. Workers set out to repair the damage, while engineers of the...

FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-D FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT LIUCHOW WORKERS FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, IN CHINA-- Workers from Liuchow help to repair the former Fourteenth Air Force base there after the Japanese evacuated 30 June. The Japs mined and damaged the strip. A team of Chinese workers clears dirt and rubble after...

American and Chinese men work together at a lathe. Image from U. S. Government official sources.

Men work on radio equipment at a base in China. Image from U. S. Government official sources.

A B-25 under maintenance in the CBI during WWII. Notice the canvas cover over the turret on the fuselage.

A Chinese worker repairs a piston by hand at an American base in China during WWII.

A Chinese work rehabilitates engine gaskets by hand in China during WWII.

Iron smiths in China forge a large steel rod during WWII.

A car pool maintenance area in the CBI during WWII.