12th Air Service Group

"Autos and trucks were practically non extant in the civilian population in China.This pic show one of the trucks that did exist.Whenever one of the trucks broke down it was repaired on the spot by whatever means necessary. All the trucks were converted to charcoal burners because of the shortage of gasoline. On steep grades someone would run along side...

Chinese Soldiers massed and ready for convoy at Guilin just prior to evacuation of the American bases there in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign in late 1944.

A town in China during WWII.

Chinese men eat a banquet, while GIS stand to one side and look at something. The white bands on the heads of some of the men who are eating implies this is a funeral banquet. In China during WWII.

Signs in English for the "Leisure Cafe' (公余咖啡室) and "Johnny's Cafe painted on a town wall near a town gate in China during WWII.

Pat O'Brien and his USO troupe perform at an American airbase in China in October 1944. Left to right they are Jimmy Dodd, Jinx Falkenberg, Pat O'Brien, Ruth Carrol and Betty Yeaton.

During a USO show at an American airbase Betty Yeaton performs for the service men. October 1944.

During a USO show at an American airbase Betty Yeaton performs for the service men. October 1944.

A GI examines the wing of a crashed aircraft in the CBI during WWII.

12th Air Service Group mechanics salvage what they can from wrecked B-25 in China during WWII.