air base

Chinese workers pulling a concrete roller at a field in China, probably in Hunan Province or Guangxi Province. During WWII.

Alice Chong on the Kunming air strip posing before a C-54 with some of her 14th U.S.A.A.F buddies in 1944. Note the blood chit prominently-displayed inside the flying jacket of the Colonel Pilot at center rear. Captain Addison Bailey (in dark shirt) to Alice’s immediate right-all others unidentified. (Images and information primarily courtesy of Brian Dillon.)

Bill Rumler poses on base. October 4, 1945, Gushkara, India. 24th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Photo Reconnaissance Group, 10th Air Force.

Japanese planes burning in revetments at Chiang Mai air base, Thailand. Note scattered puffs of dust on ground from machine gun or cannon fire. 22nd Bombardment Squadron.

B-25s "Peeling Off" for a landing at Chakulia. 22nd Bombardment Squadron in the CBI.

Workers removing hill by hand labor at Chenggong (Dog Baker) air base during WWII.

Control towers, top tower at Chabua, India, during WWII.

Mohanbari Airfield, India, during WWII.

Control tower at an air base in India during WWII.

Services at a church in Burma. A western priest leads the ceremony. In Burma near the 797th Engineer Forestry Company. During WWII.