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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

"On troop ship USS Brazil. Skit 'Calling Mr. Galloway.' Jules Kaufman & Johnny Klock of the 16th CCU in the middle of the group." GIs on the way back home in the US after the war. The viewers include dozens of African-American GIs mixed in, before the stage. See related image here.
Teddy White at the typewriter during WWII.
Flak damage to the B-24 "China Clipper" as photographed after the fact by Hal Geer, who had also been holding a camera on the plane at that location, at the waist window, when the plane was hit in flight. The camera in his hands (and held to his face) had been destroyed by the flak, which he felt however saved...
A Chinese VIP reads a speech at a banquet in China during WWII.
Chinese civilians and Nationalist soldiers pass the time on a small bridge in Yunnan, China, probably near Kunming or Yangkai base. During WWII.
A Buddhist pagoda in Yunnan, maybe in Dali. During WWII.
US air base construction at Chengdu, China, during WWII.
Pouring a concrete foundation as part of American air base construction in China during WWII. Chinese laborers pouring concrete into forms.
American air base construction in China during WWII.