1944

Air Force leadership in China meet to decide to blow up the US air base at Guilin in the face of the Japanese advance during Ichigo in the summer/fall 1944. General Chennault, in pith helmet, is climbing down from the transport airplane, and an unknown general is reaching out in the middle, with Casey Vincent behind, and Tex Hill, always...

American GIs await evacuation at the American base at Liuzhou city, Guangxi province, China, during the fall of 1944.

Chinese retreat about 75-100 miles east of Lingling in the fall of 1944, crossing a river by ferry.

General Chennault at a staff meeting in China on November 2, 1944.

Chinese crews work at a range finder, almost certainly in Liuzhou, October 9, 1944.

Busy street in Guilin, Guangxi province, China, in 1944.

Chinese troops cross the river at Lingling by barge during retreat in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign advances in the summer/fall of 1944.

Stretcher bearers take a break in Guangxi province, either Guilin or Liuzhou area, probably during the evacuation of fall 1944. The white paper posted on the store sign says basically, "Everything for sale, including building, animals, possessions."

Paul J. Koerner, born around 1917, was son of Mrs. Gertrude Gibbons who resided in Hagerstown, Maryland. He had his tonsils and adenoids removed at Washington County Hospital in June 1938, at around age 21. Paul J. Koerner enlisted in the Army Air Corps on October 10, 1940, prior to the start of war, in Baltimore, Maryland. At the time...

Originally 11th Bombardment Squadron. Mother Florence Sayer, sister one year younger, Jay C. He resided in Twin Falls County, Idaho prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on December 20, 1941 in Portland, Oregon. ASN: 19005450 Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) #5346 We have learned a bit about him from kind family members, but we would...