air raid

Japanese bombing of Kunming, December, 1943. The dirt pyramids are bomb bunkers. Image likely by Hal Geer.

CBI-44-60576 30 Sept 44 Photo by Pfc J.C. Bowermaster Five Japanese bombers struck the Liuzhou airbase on the 29th of September and destroyed this B-24 and a gas dump, as well as a C-46 transport plane. During a fourty-five minute raid the was the only serious damage suffered.