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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

Camp Schiel rest camp, and Yangzonghai (阳宗海) lake, in Yunnan, during WWII.
A Chinese prisoner being taken to execution site by Nationalist soldiers during WWII.
A Chinese prisoner being interrogated by the Chinese and Americans during WWII.
General Chennault on the flight line in conference with pilot officers, navigators, and bombardiers, while a camera crew catches it all in this contrived scene. In China, during WWII. See another set of related images here.
General Chennault on the flight line in conference with pilot officers, navigators, and bombardiers, while a camera crew catches it all in this contrived scene. In SW China, during WWII. See another set of related images here.
Barracks life at an American base in southwest China during WWII: Bunk, chest, and pin-ups. See more here and here.
Barracks life at an American base in southwest China during WWII: GI lies pensively on his bunk. See more here and here.
Tutwiler (left) and Selig Seidler (right) with jeep #749 "Miss Lucy Bowels" in southwest China, during the Second World War.
Combat photographers train for aerial work in the US before deployment overseas during WWII, on a AT-11. Note the clean new parachutes strapped to the nervous photographers. Aircraft serial #127339.
GIs hanging out during a trip on the Burma Road during WWII.