Burma Road (Ledo, Stilwell)

Burma Road dedication ceremony in Kunming, China, on February 4, 1945, during WWII. Review of first convoy (or one of the first convoys) to reach China. General view of the stage and reviewing party, with American and Chinese dignitaries, soldiers, and civilian VIPs. An American band plays, and an honor lines on both sides of the center carpet stand in...

A Chinese elder holds a baby along the Burma Road during WWII, during September 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. Syd Greenberg.

Wards and operating rooms of the 22nd Field Hospital's tent hospital at Kai Yuan. In the CBI during WWII. This hospital was apparently set up in some haste... notice the tombstone used to anchor the tent. Photo from Wesley Furste.

Burma Road dedication ceremony in Kunming, China, on February 4, 1945, during WWII. Review of first convoy (or one of the first convoys) to reach China. General view of the stage and reviewing party, with American and Chinese dignitaries, soldiers, and civilian VIPs. An American band plays, and an honor lines on both sides of the center carpet stand in...

930th Aviation Engineering Bat. group at junction of Ledo and Burma roads. During WWII.

Burma Road dedication ceremony in Kunming, China, on February 4, 1945, during WWII. Review of first convoy (or one of the first convoys) to reach China. General view of the stage and reviewing party, with American and Chinese dignitaries, soldiers, and civilian VIPs. An American band plays, and an honor lines on both sides of the center carpet stand in...

American and Chinese VIPs cut tape on the Burma Road during WWII.

Monsoon landslide halts convoy on Burma-Stilwell Road. In the CBI. U. S. Army Photo.

A pole driver, built on-site, is employed by workers in SW China to drive bridge supports into the ground. During WWII.

Col. Sells and two Chinese soldiers stand next to sign at the Burma-Ledo Road and Tengchong cutoff, in 1945. Photo by T/Sgt. Syd Greenberg.