air base

Radio in a control tower at an air base in the CBI during WWII.

Control tower at a US air base in the CBI during WWII.

Mechanical grader flattens out a runway in the CBI during WWII, while C-47 moves in the background.

Ruined Japanese Zero at Warazup, Burma, during WWII.

Fascinating photo of a crew working out in the open on a non-American aircraft somewhere in southern China. This is likely a Japanese Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate which the Chinese air force received after the war. The two people on the right should be Chinese, and the crew who are working at maintaining the aircraft near the engine are Japanese and...

Control tower at Dinjan before the fire. During WWII. Photo from Richard Radcliffe.

Control tower (arrow, center) and enlisted men's barrack (right center) of the 1339th AAFBU at Chengkang (Chengkung), Yunnan province, China. Four B-24s are scattered around the field.

During a short rest period from the construction of an airfield (maybe at Chengdu), Chinese laborers look at "Life" magazine held by Lt. Otto of Troy, New York, in China during WWII. Photo by 16th Combat Camera Unit, provided courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Runway at Liuchow (Liuzhou) air base, China (prior to evacuation in 1944), during WWII. By the 16Th Combat Camera Unit . Images courtesy of Tony Strotman (extra on-image annotations by Tony Strotman).

Interdicted by the Flying Tigers since they evacuated on November 7, 1944, the former 14th Air Force advanced base at Liuchow (Liuzhou), vital railroad and highway junction in central Kwangsi (Guangxi) and in the path of general Japanese withdrawals from the Lung Valley and Siang corridor that end the Japanese dreams of a Greater East Asia land line from Singapore...