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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

Air Force leadership in China meet to decide to blow up the US air base at Guilin in the face of the Japanese advance during Ichigo in the summer/fall 1944. General Chennault, in pith helmet, is climbing down from the transport airplane, and an unknown general is reaching out in the middle, with Casey Vincent behind, and Tex Hill, always...
The railway bridge at Lingling, destroyed. WWII. Another angle:
American GIs await evacuation at the American base at Liuzhou city, Guangxi province, China, during the fall of 1944.
Major Wilfrid M. Cline, commander of 16th Combat Camera Unit from May 1943 to February 1945, at the driver's seat of a jeep at an American base in China during WWII. Two others unknown. Wilfrid M. Cline had a significant Hollywood career both before and after the war.
GIs at the "Hollywood Inn whorehouse in Kweilin (Guilin)" during WWII. "Adams" of the "75th" on the left.
A GI talks into a microphone of a portable radio in the back of a vehicle, during WWII in China.
A GI operates a portable radio from the back of a vehicle in the CBI during WWII. See alternate image here.
People go about their daily domestic lives in a small town in SW China during WWII.
During WWII in China, an American GI operates a portable radio from the back of a vehicle in near Guilin, Guangxi province. See alternate image here.
A city wall at or near Guilin, Guangxi, during WWII.