Liuzhou 柳州

A Chinese refugee making shade from the hot sun between train cars. At the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugee waits atop flatbed car at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

A weapon's carrier waiting to be loaded in front of Hostel #4 at the American airbase at Liuzhou. During WWII. From the collection of Hal Geer.

Putting down barbed wire in the fall of 1944 in Liuzhou. Notice the English "United Artist Studio" in the back--after the Japanese retreat from Liuzhou, only those pillars stand [view].

The Liuzhou south train station during the evacuation in the face of the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944. Notice that someone has scraped out the name of the station on the photo itself.

Newly installed barbed wire and barricades in Liuzhou before the Japanese Ichigo advance in the fall of 1944.

A GI and a local elite (ie, the daughter or wife of an important local person) pay respects to a refugee at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugees at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Aircraft #43-4628, an 11th Bomb Squadron B-25H, is parked somewhere on Luichow Airfield.

An elderly Chinese man in Liuzhou (based on the inverted sign behind him) smokes a cigarette during WWII.