Ichigo Campaign

GIs inspect a destroyed Japanese fighter left over at the airbase after the Japanese retreat from Liuzhou after Ichigo (一号作戦 Ichi-gō Sakusen, lit. "Operation Number One") . Photos taken by Robert F. Riese in or around Liuzhou city, Guangxi province, China, in 1945. See another image of this plane here.

Chinese Soldiers massed and ready for convoy at Guilin just prior to evacuation of the American bases there in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign in late 1944.

Chinese refugees evacuating from Guilin by train during the Japanese Ichigo campaign. During WWII.

Photo of Elmer Bukey taken in Calcutta, India, in early 1944. Elmer Bukey was a member of the 396th Air Service Squadron, 12th Air Service Group, in the CBI during WWII, and spent much time in southwestern China, including very nervous and difficult days during the retreat in front of the Japanese Ichigo campaign during summer and fall of 1944...

American and Chinese servicemen shortly after retreat of Japanese from Guangxi from Liuzhou after Ichigo, now re-entering areas the Japanese had controlled not long before. This photo is likely from around the larger Liuzhou area.

'Unidentified remains in a field.' Southwest of Liuchow, fighters of the Fourteenth Air Force caught a cavalry column headed towards Liuchow following the Japanese retreat after Ichigo. The Japanese did not have time to bury their dead and the remains of horses and horsemen lay scattered throughout the valley.

Southwest of Liuchow, fighters of the Fourteenth Air Force caught a cavalry column headed towards Liuchow following the Japanese retreat after Ichigo. The Japanese did not have time to bury their dead and the remains of horses and horsemen lay scattered throughout the valley.

Ferry and footbridge 13 miles east of Ping Yang (平阳镇), which the Japanese had used during their retreat towards Liuzhou. Crossings like this one were bottlenecks that allowed attacks by 14th Air Force planes and Chinese ground troops. During WWII.

Excited civilians applaud and surround American GIs who have just returned to Liuzhou on the heels of the retreating Japanese upon the failure of the Ichigo Campaign. See this image with different caption here.

Lt. Colonel Wright Hiatt, Winchester, Indiana, and Capt. Berwyn Fry, 7314 Bennett Ave., Chicago, Ill., Engineers with the 14Th Air Force, and a Chinese worker, with two of the Japanese mines removed from the air strip, at Liuzhou (Liuchow), China.