Ex-CBI Roundup

Local citizens lined up with buckets to collect water at Chongqing (Chungking), China, during WWII.

Photographer and funny man Syd Greenberg tries out a long pipe with a local Chinese gentleman, and soldiers and kids look on with enthusiasm, before the Salween River campaign.

Chinese women working rice paddies near Kunming during WWII, 1945.

A Chinese vendor carries his goods on a shoulder pole in the CBI during WWII. Photo by C. W. Leipnitz.

Farming in China: Farmer resting on wheelbarrow.

Boats in a Kunming canal, where women appear to be fishing. These boats are also their homes. During WWII.

A Chinese woman and child start a fire next to a pipeline in which gasoline is flowing, 15 miles out of Kunming, next to the road to Chenggong (Chengkung). During WWII.

A very narrow main market street in a typical village near Kunming, Yunnan province. In addition to food stalls and other sellers, in this case a funeral activity (usually several days long) is being carried out in part in the street. During WWII.

Daughter of Lin Yutang, author of "The Importance of Living" with Captain Joe Marshall, working together in Kunming on a blood drive for Chinese soldiers. During WWII.

Chaplain Kelly and M. J. Hollman try out foot-powered water pump in a rice paddy in SW China during WWII, as members of farm family look on.