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Missions Outreaches Amid the Battles Chaplain Mengel lead his men to participate in outreach to the wartorn and impoverished Chinese countryside. These photos from Chaplain Mengel's private collection, show him he and the men visiting mission schools, interacting with the children and teachers, and assisting blind children's homes. The US airmen also gave out collected donations to help bombed out...

Missions Outreaches Amid the Battles Chaplain Mengel lead his men to participate in outreach to the wartorn and impoverished Chinese countryside. These photos from Chaplain Mengel's private collection, show him he and the men visiting mission schools, interacting with the children and teachers, and assisting blind children's homes. The US airmen also gave out collected donations to help bombed out...

Missions Outreaches Amid the Battles Chaplain Mengel lead his men to participate in outreach to the wartorn and impoverished Chinese countryside. These photos from Chaplain Mengel's private collection, show him he and the men visiting mission schools, interacting with the children and teachers, and assisting blind children's homes. The US airmen also gave out collected donations to help bombed out...

Outfitted with a garrison cap, a tiny pistol and cut-down GI pants, Saio Lau Hu (otherwise known as "Little Tiger Joe") works his little legs like pistons trying to keep up with his foster fathers, during WWII in China, fall 1944.

"Little Tiger Joe," Chinese refugee baby adopted by one of the units of the 14th Air Force, is shown here framed by an ancient Chinese doorway, during WWII in China.

"Little Tiger Joe" stands inspection right along with his foster fathers, the 907th Engineers in the CBI (China) during WWII.

"Little Tiger Joe", well known to the 14th Air Force stationed in China, on the drill ground at 14th Air Force Headquarters with 1st Sgt. Robert Duerson of the 907th Engineers Headquarters Company, in the CBI during WWII.

Throughout the world the American soldiers' fondness for children has become well known and in China it is no exception. Scores of orphans have been adopted by men of the Major-General C. L. Chennault\'s Fourteenth Air Force. here Staff Sergeant Elwood Clark of 2922 Coleman Ave., Corpus Christi, Texas, is shown holding Marie Liu, 6-year old girl who was found...