10th AAF Combat Camera Unit

IOCU 5MP 12 AZON BOMB SECRET. A B-24 bomber flying a mission. According to this photograph's header, it may be carrying an AZON. "AZON (AZimuth ONly) was one of the world's first smart bombs, deployed by the Allies and contemporary with the German Fritz X. Officially designated VB-1 (Vertical Bomb), it was invented by Major Henry J. Rand and Thomas...

10CU Burma Road (Res). A field of Chinese soldiers standing in ranks.

10CU 5G7 32 BURMA ROAD (RES). Monument. This is a Chinese monument in memoriam for an American “Lieutenant,” but the name is not clear in the image. On the wall behind, among the Chinese slogans (about how being injured for the country is the greatest glory) is the slogan in English: "FIGHT FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS."

10CU 5G7 18 BURMA ROAD (RES). A speech with Chinese and Americans on the Burma Road.

10CU 5M7 17 BURMA ROAD (RES). An Airplane prepares to take off from a rough air strip in Burma.

An airdrop of food. 70CU 3MU 205 FOOD DROPPING (SECRET) Notice the trenches dug around the tiny base.

10CU 2nd T.C. Air Supply Sec. Loading supplies onto a mule. One box says in contains cans of string beans.

10CU 5G20 4 2ND T.C. AIR SUPPLY SEG. Dropping supplies by air.

Chinese soldier with mule.

On the ground in the midst of air drop parachutes, a GI coordinates with a group of Chinese soldiers. IOGU 5G20 12 2ND T.C. AIR SUPPLY SEC.