Ex-CBI Roundup

Nurse LaRetta Matthews Garland at a rest camp in China, in image from Jim Lewter, who was stationed at the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming. Some of Nurse Garland's story below: From autumn 1943 until summer 1945, Lakeland native Lt. LaRetta “Matty” Matthews was “over the Hump,” a nurse with the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming, China. Five thousand miles...

Bob Leavens poses riding a rickshaw in Guiyang (Kweiyang) city, Guizhou (Kweichow), China, in 1944.

A captured Japanese airplane in 1943 and an American pilot (who is noted to have supposedly died) in the CBI during WWII in 1943.

T/Sgt. George Andrijko paints his commanding officer, Lt. Col. C. P. Eckerrt, 51st Air Depot Repair Squadron (??), during WWII.

Sgt. Bud Baldwin on Monkey Bridge, China, near Burma border, during WWII. Photo by Syd Greenberg.

General Joseph W. Stilwell chats with men at port at Calcutta. July 30, 1944. Left to right: Brig. Gen. G. X. Cheves, Gen. Stilwell, S/Sgt. Julius Miller, Cpl. John Carvone, and Cpl. Peter Cecora. Photo by Pfc. Louis W. Raczkowski.

Former GI with former Lt. General Tom Rienzi in Honolulu many years after the war.

US Army post office at Myitkyina during WWII. In the CBI.

American troops of the 2nd Battalion, 279th Regiment, use a machine gun to fire upon Japanese positions on the Burma Road, at Loi Kang Burma. January 26, 1945. Photo by Colgate.

Adrian Atwater stands in front of barracks in which he lived at Camp Bally, India, in 1944.