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American flyers pose before Consolidated B-24D-25-CO Liberator "Doodlebug," serial #41-24223. In SW China as the bomber is being refueled. During WWII.
Chinese workers unloading barrels from a C-46 transport during WWII.
Camp or transport station along Burma Road. During WWII. 797th Engineer Forestry Company.
797th Engineer Forestry Company in Burma, GI fuels logging truck along the Burma Road. During WWII.
Guarded gates of the Nationalist Kunming Air Force Officer Training School during WWII, with C-46 transports, and a fuel trailer (on the far right).
"Vehicles bound for Chengdu and the 20th bomber command are loaded on barges. As a steamboat (behind man directing) waits to ferry the barge across. All necessary gasoline was carried along for the journey. Several 55 gallon drums are visible in the vehicle. Poles were used to move the barges out of shallow water." Courtesy of https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/id/7572.
A C-46 transport plane (tail number #478199) being unloaded of fuel barrels by Chinese laborers at the air base at Luliang. During WWII.
Fuel barrels in a flooded revetment in Yunnan province, China, most likely at the Luliang air base area. During WWII.
A P-38 under maintenance and fueling at a base in Guangxi province in 1944, most likely a base at Guilin. August 2, 1944. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.
"Empty gas drums burned during raid." Karst hills in the background hit that this is likely a US base in Guangxi province, China, either at Liuzhou or Guilin. See alternative image here.