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16th Combat Camera Unit

Some background on the 16th Combat Camera Unit can be found here: http://www.cbi-history.com/part_vi_16th_ccu.html

American GIs loiter outside an official looking building in China during WWII.
GIs posing looking at map next to their camouflaged jeep. In China during WWII.
An American "headquarters radio unit" somewhere in China during WWII.
An area of an American air base in Guilin, Guangxi province, China, during WWII.
An elderly Chinese woman takes her lunch somewhere outside of Kunming, while a Nationalist guard is in the background. During WWII.
Exhausted and overheated Chinese refugees at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.
The facilities at the Hengyang airbase burn as the allies retreat in the face of the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944.
16th Combat Camera Unit photographer Hal Geer takes pictures in China during WWII. The person with him might be an assistant.
A newly built building at a base in China during WWII. Note the raise protective berm around the building, to protect from bomb blasts, etc.
On of the barracks (hostels) used by U.S. Army Air Force personnel at Kweilin, China, prior to Sep. 1944.