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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

GIs are presented with gifts in China during WWII. Probably at Liuzhou.
An American woman keeping up appearances in Guilin during WWII. From the collection of Hal Geer.
General Chennault at a staff meeting in China on November 2, 1944.
Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek with Gen. Chennault in China during WWII.
Chinese crews work at a range finder, almost certainly in Liuzhou, October 9, 1944.
Busy street in Guilin, Guangxi province, China, in 1944.
Unloading (or loading) fuel barrels from C-47 transport plane #315380 in China during WWII. Note how some of the Chinese laborers are just teenagers, and overshadowed by the much larger adult American soldiers. See another photo of unloading same plane here.
A Chinese man smokes from an elaborate decorated pipe in China during WWII.
During WWII, a child sells candied fruit on the street, probably in Yunnan. Local people in China, including a young candied fruit seller selling candied haws fruit on bamboo skewers. A reverse of this image can be seen in the Wozniak collection here.