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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

A damaged building in China, presumably bomb damage. During WWII.
Guilin after being burned by Allies during retreat of summer/fall 1944
Chinese workers and Nationalist soldiers build a fortified bunker at a street corner in a town in Guangxi province, during WWII, in the summer or fall of 1944 during the Japanese push south in the Ichigo campaign.
A civilian family of westerners on a military C-47 transport in the CBI during WWII, on June 8, 1944.
Result of explosives set on bridge by Americans in 1944 during retreat from Japanese in Guangxi province, China, during WWII. See GI setting explosives here.
Bustling city life on a bridge in Guilin during WWII.
Setting explosives on bridge in 1944 during retreat from Japanese in Guangxi province, China, during WWII. The results of the explosion can be seen here.
In the midst of calamity, a refugee mother tenderly washes her baby next to the train at the Liuzhou railway station in the fall of 1944.
Refugees and Nationalist soldiers flee Guilin and arrive near Liuzhou, in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign in the summer/fall of 1944.
A building on Allied base in China during WWII.