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Captain Wilson Porch & monkey outside of the Officers Club Mess hall. Shamshernagar Air Base India, June 1945.
Captain Wilson Porch: Shamshernagar Air Base, India, May 1945 - "My Jeep and I" Image provided by Frank Cabral.
Guys and dog mascot hanging out in the CBI, most likely at Yangkai. Jay Rosencrantz on the right.
Chinese laborers rest at noon on their work to rebuild the air strip at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, in 1944.
From: Public Relations Office Fourteenth Air Force Code 07041420/J Release On Rcpt Cleared Goldberg USFCT -FIRST PICTURES FROM REOCCUPIED LIUCHOW AREA- Former Fourteenth Air Force Base Fourteenth Air Force Headquarters, In China-- This is the former Fourteenth Air Force base at Liuchow as Americans accompanying the Chinese Ground forces found it upon their arrival, after the Japanese had evacuated it...
A crew of Chinese civilians pulling a roller at an air base in the CBI. During WWII.
FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-L FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT CHINESE HELP PUT LIUCHOW BASE BACK INTO OPERATION FOURTEENTH AIR BASE HEADQUARTERS -- IN CHINA -- Chinese workers from Liuchow report to work at the former Fourteenth Air Force Base there, which the Japanese evacuated on 30 May. Japanese left the former American airbase...
FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-D FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT LIUCHOW WORKERS FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, IN CHINA-- Workers from Liuchow help to repair the former Fourteenth Air Force base there after the Japanese evacuated 30 June. The Japs mined and damaged the strip. A team of Chinese workers clears dirt and rubble after...
Three gentlemen, Ed Nelson (Bad Axe, Mich), Sgt. Norton G. Stubblefield (Dallas Texas), and 1st Lt. Charles J. Jantzen (Seattle, Washington) with the self-propelled battery cart they have built from spare parts and salvage.
An airstrip under construction near a railroad, in a region of karst formations. This is almost certainly Liuzhou, in Guangxi province.