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GI tent camp at Liuzhou during WWII. 1945.
Tents for GIs at the American base at Liuzhou during WWII. Not the man fishing in the lower right, and the volleyball court right below the tents in the middle.
Flyers talk with real animation on an American air base in SW China during WWII. Glade Burton leaning on jeep and looking at camera.
This is the Fourteenth Air Force base at Liuchow [Liuzhou] as Americans accompanying the Chinese Ground Forces found it ditched, pitterd, cratered, and mined upon their arrival after the Japanese had evacuated it. The air base at Liuchow was lost to the Japanese on 7 November 1944. Japanese were never able to capitalize it as Fourteenth Air Force bombers and...
Soldiers of the 14th Air Force, aided by Chinese soldiers and workers, remove bombs from the ammunition dump preparatory to abandoning the Hengyang Airfield.
Tower Building. AACS Sta. No. 251, 128th Squadron, at Chanyi, China. Elevation 6196 ft.
Men being treating after explosion, some of the more fortunate ones.
Horrible aftermath of the bomb accidently exploding--a circle of dead or mortally injured men.
The terrible aftermath of a bomb accidently exploding during a demonstration.
Aftermath of the bomb accidently exploding.