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The “Remembering Shared Honor” (RSH) project sets out to collect and preserve oral histories related to Chinese and American cooperation during the Second World War in the China-Burma-India(CBI) theater of war.
This historical archive has a total of 7,074 entries.
A street scene in either Songming or Kunming, in Yunnan province, China, during WWII. Notice the 55-gallon barrels being hauled away for reuse after flying over The Hump.
Yunnan (China), three young men employed as housekeepers and launderers sitting with Bert Krawczyk: "These are three houseboys from the airbase at Luliang. Houseboys were provided by the Chinese government under a reverse lend-lease program. The China War Area Service Command administered the program. This command was set up by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to take care of the food and...
Local school kids pose in courtyard of school in Yunnan province, China, during WWII, at the Songming County Xiaogu Central Elementary School (嵩明县效古中心小学校). A higher resolution version can be found here.