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Master Sergeant Walter D. Zielinski helps a Chinese mechanic attach a cluster of bombs to a fighter plane of the CACW.

Sgt. Andrew R. Allegretto chats with Chinese airmen, with a B-25 in the background. Sgt. Allegretto received the Air Medal for flying on a hazardous mission as part of the "Spray and Pray Squadron," part of CACW. Andrew Ralph Allegretto in CBI arrived aboard MISSION BAY. He volunteered for some of the squadron’s most perilous missions. ALLEGRETTO, Andrew Ralph ("Swifty"...

CACW mechanics Sgt. R. G. Miller, and Sgt. Fu Yong Chie work on P-51 fighter in China during WWII.

CACW personnel work on fighter plane. Here Sgt. John H. Carl, Jr. assists Sgt. Y. K. Chen in repair work.

Sgt. Chang Lee Chen and Sgt. K. W. Ball make final adjustments to bomb for dive-bombing in the CACW during WWII in China.

Young girl shoulders carrying-pole to repair runway at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, after Japanese retreat after Ichigo. See another image of this girl here.

Chinese laborers rest at noon on their work to rebuild the air strip at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, in 1944.

Runway being repaired at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, after the Japanese had retreated after Ichigo.

The runway at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, after the Japanese retreat with Ichigo.

Young girl shoulders carrying-pole to repair runway at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, after Japanese retreat after Ichigo. See another image of this girl here.