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"Our encampment waiting to cross the river when the war ended." In the CBI during WWII. Photo from Robert Babinec.
Chinese crowds eagerly welcome the first US land convoy of supplies arrives in Yunnan province after completion of the Burma/Ledo/Stilwell road. In the CBI. By U. S. Army Signal Corps.
First convoy over the Ledo-Burma Road takes it easy en route to Kunming during WWII. Photo from Robert L. Cowan.
Train guard Frank A. Wypis with interpreter assistant between Madras and Calcutta in mid 1945. Photo from Frank A. Wypis.
Pulling truck and 155mm Howitzer through mud on Burma Road, February 15, 1945. US Army Photo. Image from Raimon B. Cary.
Capt. H. H. Wood poses with his jeep at Ledo, Assam. 478th Quartermaster Regiment, Truck.
Convoy with Chinese troops in Salween Gorge, January 30, 1945. US Army Photo.
The first conveyor for loading planes arrives in the CBI, September 1945.
Convoy rest break on the Ledo Road taking supplies into China, during WWII. 1945.
Lonely, winding section of Burma Road near the Salween River in southwest China, during WWII. Photo by George Pollock.