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"Our encampment waiting to cross the river when the war ended." In the CBI during WWII. Photo from Robert Babinec.
Chinese crowds eagerly welcome the first US land convoy of supplies arrives in Yunnan province after completion of the Burma/Ledo/Stilwell road. In the CBI. By U. S. Army Signal Corps.
First convoy over the Ledo-Burma Road takes it easy en route to Kunming during WWII. Photo from Robert L. Cowan.
Train guard Frank A. Wypis with interpreter assistant between Madras and Calcutta in mid 1945. Photo from Frank A. Wypis.
Pulling truck and 155mm Howitzer through mud on Burma Road, February 15, 1945. US Army Photo. Image from Raimon B. Cary.
Convoy with Chinese troops in Salween Gorge, January 30, 1945. US Army Photo.
American and Chinese soldiers--drivers of the first truck convoy to China in almost three years smile happily as they reach the China border at Wanting. The dusty, begrimed drivers took turns with their Allies in driving over the 1,004-mile route form Ledo, India, to Kunming, China. During WWII. (OWI-PW staff photo by Sgt. John Gutman)
A convoy of mud-covered jeeps in southern China.