1944

Buildings of Chongqing form the backdrop for farmers and rices paddies. 1944. Photo from Harold L. Block.

A temple guard in Assam, India, 1944.

Women carrying bundle of straw or brush at the rest camp at Ranikhet in 1944, high in Himalayan mountain range of India. During WWII.

A P-40 fighter down hard on its nose at Panagar in early 1944. Photo by Frank Gregor.

Lt. Col. Gordon S. Seagrave and Lt. Gen. L. J. Sun, Commanding General of Chinese 38th Div., are seen here discussing the health of a Chinese patient in Col. Seagrave's Ningam Sakan hospital unit. January, 1944. Photo by T/5 Leipnitz.

GIs float a jeep--wrapped in canvas to give it buoyancy--across the Moguang River in Burma, June 20, 1944. Photo from Robert L. Cowan. An identical image was submitted by Raimon B. Cary.

Take-off crash of 7th Bomb Group, 436th Bomb Squadron, B-24 on November 11, 1944. Tail number #440814. In Pandeveswar, India. Photo from W. A. Delahay. In the CBI.

A man sleeps under a banyan tree in India during WWII. In the CBI. Photo submitted by Glenn S. Hensley, Kirkwood, MO.

Dale Stronbehn looking out the right side gun port while returning from a flight over India in 1944.

A coffin prepared for a funeral in Guiyang city, Guizhou proving, China, during WWII, 1944. Photo by Robert G. Leavens.