1944

A Chinese refugee resting and hiding from the heat near a train at Liuzhou during the evacuation in Guangxi during the fall of 1944.

A Chinese refugee making shade from the hot sun between train cars. At the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugee waits atop flatbed car at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

At an American air base in SW China during WWII, dated May 18, 1944. The hand-written notation says "Kunming", but the karst mountains in the background are the type found in Guangxi province, near Liuzhou or Guilin, and definitely no where near Kunming.

Chennault and others making the decision to blow up the air base before the Japanese advance, fall of 1944, in Guilin.

Allied destruction at Guilin before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944.

Major General Claire L. Chennault (left ) and Brig. General Edgar E. Glenn inspect engine repair on a P-51 at an airfield, Kunming, China, 3 November 1944. These are most probably 26th Fighter Squadron P-51C Mustangs. Image by 16th Combat Camera Unit. (Info thanks to TexLonghorn & JBarbaud)

A Chinese Nationalist pill-box fortification being built in the road at an intersection in Guilin, before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944.

Retreating by ferry near Lingling in the face of the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944, crossing a river by ferry.

Putting down barbed wire in the fall of 1944 in Liuzhou. Notice the English "United Artist Studio" in the back--after the Japanese retreat from Liuzhou, only those pillars stand [view].