Kunming 昆明

Burma Road dedication ceremony in Kunming, China, on February 4, 1945, during WWII. Review of first convoy (or one of the first convoys) to reach China. General view of the stage and reviewing party, with American and Chinese dignitaries, soldiers, and civilian VIPs. An American band plays, and an honor lines on both sides of the center carpet stand in...

Burma Road dedication ceremony in Kunming, China, on February 4, 1945, during WWII. Review of first convoy (or one of the first convoys) to reach China. General view of the stage and reviewing party, with American and Chinese dignitaries, soldiers, and civilian VIPs. An American band plays, and an honor lines on both sides of the center carpet stand in...

GIs visiting US military graves at Kunming. In the background are markers for the deceased, including for one of 2nd Lt. George R. Barnes, #0-79770, 74th Fighter Squadron, deceased July 24, 1943 at Lingling, Hunan province. Photo from Warren C. Smith. George R. Barnes, entered the Service From: Pennsylvania, Cumberland County. "KIA"

Nurse LaRetta Matthews Garland at a rest camp in China, in image from Jim Lewter, who was stationed at the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming. Some of Nurse Garland's story below: From autumn 1943 until summer 1945, Lakeland native Lt. LaRetta “Matty” Matthews was “over the Hump,” a nurse with the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming, China. Five thousand miles...

Buddhist statue near Kunming. In the CBI. March, 1945.

930th Engineer Aviation Regiment softball team, Kalaikunda, India, 1944.

Christmas tree in OSS Detachment mess hall at Kunming air base in 1944.

A parachute forms a backdrop in this Chapel in Kunming in 1945. Father Charles F. Meeus celebrates mass. The Father's pulpit is the cowling for the P-40K "Little Flower" flown by Ray Kaiser (25th FS). "Little Flower" was St Therese from Lisieux, France. (Thanks JBarbaud) Notice the corrugated metal making up the lower area of the alter, also likely parts...