16th Combat Camera Unit

A chariot race in Chanyi, China during WWII.

Hal Geer working with a movie camera in the CBI. Upon seeing this image in 2008, Hal responded: "This picture is a total surprise. The camera is a Wahl single system sound camera that arrived in China late in 1944. The sound amplifier is not along side it, so I assume I was just shooting some test footage. The camera...

Hal Geer standing near a jeep holding a camera somewhere in Guangxi province, either at Guilin or Liuzhou.

Left to right: 1st lt. Lloyd Wiler, sound man who worked at RKO Pictures before the war. Capt. Wilfred Cline, CO of the 16th Combat Camera Unit. He was a first cameraman in the studios who specialized in Technicolor films. He made numerous Fitzgerald Travel logs. S/sgt Anthony DeLuceney at camera. The camera is a modified Bell & Howell 35mm...

S/Sgt Anthony DeLuceney operating the camera, 1st Lt Lloyd D. Wiler, sound man, in front of the camera. The case in front of Wiler contains the amplifier for the sound recorder in the camera (it was a variable area sound system.) Capt Howard Pennebaker in back of the camera. Pennebaker was originally the Unit Adjutant until spring of 45, then...

1St Lt. Lloyd D. Wiler, Sound Recorder at the amplifier of the Wahl camera. In the background, holding the microphone is T/Sgt Guy West. Guy was our Unit clerk in our early days. When I headed for Kweilin cover the action, Guy became the unit Sergeant Major. In the spring of 1945 He returned Stateside to the Signal Corps Photo...

16th Combat Camera Unit photographer Selig Seidler and another man inspect ducks at a restaurant in China during WWII.

Various scenes at American air bases in China during WWII. It is not sure which bases are shown in these images, or if they are of the same base, but in the top left picture, the vehicle has "Hengyang" written on the door, which is the name of a that base in Hunan province.

American air base construction in China during WWII.

On an American air base either in Guangxi province (Liuzhou or Guilin), or in Hunan (Hengyang) during WWII.