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A very young Ned Lawrence Levey near the beginning of his service during WWII, in this hand-tinted image. Ned Levey, flew the hump during WWII, and was also an aerial photographer. He transported the movie stars, and transported Lily Pons and photographed her. Ned Levey, ASN #13115881, enlisted into the Army Air Corps at Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on August 19, 1942...

Richard "Dick" Harris in service in Lewiston, Idaho, in 1942. Hand colored image. From February to October 1945, Richard Daniel Harris flew C-46 military transport aircraft between India and China through the Himalayas in support of the war effort against Japan, carrying every kind of material or personnel over "the Hump." Only a young man only in his early twenties...

Darjeeling and mountains behind, including the Kangchenjunga. Hand-tinted images.

A Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) B Class 2 ft. saddle tank steam locomotive and train cars climbing the mountain. Hand-tinted image.

Japanese POWs assemble to work in Burma or SW China, during WWII.

An American officer poses in China (probably Kunming), during WWII.

An American officer poses in China (probably Kunming), during WWII.

Canal near Kunming during WWII.

Nationalist soldiers marching in SW China. During WWII.

GI taking a picture a the entrance to a chamber (天王宝殿）in the Huating Temple (华亭寺), not far from Kunming, China. During WWII.