Melvin

Pre-Christmas scene at the SOS (Service of Supply) PX at APO 627. Cpl Harold L. Graff, Cpl. Ben L. Rohleder, 1st Lt. Frances J. Vesset, and Anna Wong. December 15, 1944. Photo by Pfc. Thomas F. Melvin. Passed by censor Emanuel Goldberg.

T/5 Theodore E. Eitel directs children in cleaning his Burma Road Engineers truck, after a day of hauling rock for the Kao Tien district of the Burma Road being built from Lungling, China, to meet the Ledo Road at the Burma border. Yunnan Province on December 1, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. Greenberg. B-Detachment, 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed...

Capt. O. D. Propps, American Liaison Officer, and Col. Tung Tau, commanding 388 Regiment, 130th Division, 53rd Chinese Army, inspect captured Japanese heavy machine gun, captured on Li La Hill northwest of Chefang. This machine gun fires 7.92 mm ammunition. Yunnan Province on November 28, 1944. Photo by T/5 W. E. Shemorry. B-Detachment, 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed...

American liaison officers and Chinese troop commanders plan coordinated air and ground attack on Japanese forces at Hung Chiu Hill, southwest of Chefang. L-R: Capt. Benjamin C. Adams, Earl M. Rothberger, Capt. William L. Yeomans (F. A. Liaison O), Col. Wang Ching-shan (C.O. 388th Regiment), Lt. Col. J.N. Ruggieri (Liaison O. With 130th Division), Wang Chen-yuan (Interpreter), and Maj. Gen...

Mrs. R. J. Porter handing over Virginia Elizabeth Porter, as they arrive at APO 627's ARC Town Club, to ARC Gladys E. Wavrek, and Cpl. Theodore A. Kobel. Yunnan Province on December 15, 1944. Photo by Pfc. Thomas F. Melvin. Passed by Emanuel Goldberg.

Chinese candymaker at the Russian bakery offering some of the now locally manufactured candy which is soon to be sold in US Army Post Exchanges, at APO 627, to Maj. Robert E. Envell. Sitting by is MME Wei Chen-ko, wrapping the peanut candy. Yunnan Province on December 15, 1944. Photo by Pfc. Thomas F. Melvin. Passed by Emanuel Goldberg.

T/Sgt. Franklin E. Ditto, Sgt. Raymond F. Brunner, ARC civilian aide Lucy, and Cpl. Theodore A. Kobel play with Virginia Elizabeth Porter. Yunnan Province on December 15, 1944. Photo by Pfc. Thomas F. Melvin. Passed by Emanuel Goldberg.

Lt. Gen. Yung Li-teh, Aide-de-camp to governor Lung. Yunnan Province on December 13, 1944. Photo by Pfc. Thomas F. Melvin.

VIPs at a Rotary International meeting at Southwestern Association University Of Kunming, Yunnan Province, on December 15, 1944. Col. Elbert W. Martin, Mr. F. T. Ching, Mr. Everitt Groff-Smith, Gen. G. . Wong, Col. Burton E. Vaughn Photo by Pfc. Thomas F. Melvin.

November 14, 1944 Control Malariologist D. D. Sorrentino using blood smear kit of his own design on a Chinese soldier in China during WWII. Photo by Pvt. Thomas Melvin.