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Ex-CBI Roundup

A village gate in a style once typical of Yunnan and Guizhou province, with a saying "Mountains Lofty and Clouds Deep" (“岭峻云深”) written above the gate. During WWII. Photo from George Pollock.
T/5 C. W. Leipnitz and a Chinese family pose together is a small village near Kunming, China, during WWII.
Dale Stronbehn looking out the right side gun port while returning from a flight over India in 1944.
A P-38J nicknamed "Daddy Bear" in the CBI, fitted with three cameras for photo recon. Out of Akyab Burma, on dry rice-paddy air strip. Photo by R. T. Keagle, 40th Photo Recon Sqdn.
A B-24 bomber without the paint finish, in shiny aluminum, in the CBI during WWII.
B-24s flying in a group. Possible tail-number of closest, nicknamed "Joney Bounce," is #124228. In the CBI.
A B-24 bomber with nose art in the CBI during WWII.
P-40 "Idiots Delight" in the CBI during WWII.
A dog poses with a B-24 which has a bulldog in hat as nose art. In the CBI. From R. D. Lichty.
The B-25 "Tokyo Jo" and crew in Yunnan province, China, having bombed Tokyo April 18-19, 1942, as part of Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.