Kunming 昆明

Local people in Kunming city, Yunnan province, China, during WWII.

S/Sgt. Ira M. Brown, Corning, Iowa, receives Purple Heart from Col. D. L. Clark, Standing bedside are Lt. Col. A. A. Leonidoff, Col. J. C. Kennedy, and Lt. Col. John Groupman. According to report in his hometown paper, The Adams County Free Press (Iowa), on March 15, 1945, S/Sgt. Brown had been wounded in battle, and had been a gunner...

S/Sgt Anthony DeLuceney operating the camera, 1st Lt Lloyd D. Wiler, sound man, in front of the camera. The case in front of Wiler contains the amplifier for the sound recorder in the camera (it was a variable area sound system.) Capt Howard Pennebaker in back of the camera. Pennebaker was originally the Unit Adjutant until spring of 45, then...

Sea search base map, with search areas shaded. Bases at Liuzhou, Guilin, and Kunming are circled.

KUNMING, CHINA--22 June 45... Every Friday the "Trojan" C-54 that travels non-stop from Calcutta to Kunming, China, arrives at the airbase bringing the copies of the "China Lantern" China Theater Newspaper. L to R: T/3 Andrew G. Hoover, Theater Information Education, Pfc David Holman, Omaha, Nebrl, ATC Flight Clerk, unload the papers from the "Trojan". Photo by Cpl J. J...

Maj. William H. Makepeace, left, G-3, Y-FOS (Y-Force Operations Staff), and Capt. Shao Lien watch Chinese troops of the Chinese Fifth Army Group board a plane at the Kunming Airport during a troop movement by air. Kunming, China, 9/69/44 Signal Corps Photo #CBI-44-29885 (Pvt. Frank Zervoulis), from 164 Sign Photo Co.

Kenneth Williams in Kunming with a fanged P-40 named 'Jinx'. Notice the bent propellers.

The WASC Bulletin sheet for Kunming, China dated May 17, 1943. (WASC is War Area Service Corps.)

The Golden Horse 金马 archway in Kunming, and the other of the pair, the Emerald Rooster Archway (金马碧鸡坊), in the distance. In the CBI during WWII.

Western Hills Park (西山森林公园) in Kunming during WWII.