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GIs float a jeep--wrapped in canvas to give it buoyancy--across the Moguang River in Burma, June 20, 1944. Photo from Robert L. Cowan. An identical image was submitted by Raimon B. Cary.

Dr. Wesley Furste waves "good bye" to the CBI, about to fly home to the US from Kunming, via Calcutta. Sept. 15, 1945.

US military transport trucks wind along the Ledo Road, Burma, during WWII.

Mechanic on truck engine, needed to keep a truck running in China (CBI) during WWII.

Chinese heavy gun by the side of the road in southwest China, during WWII. Notice the rigid wheels--rubber was in short supply during wartime.

Selig Seidler plays patient being loaded into or out of a C-47 transport in a publicity movie:"During filming for nurses publicity move. Acting as stretcher case, S. Seidler, feeling fine."

American GIs stop along the Burma Road on a cool day during WWII.

"Moving again." GIs in transit through a train station in China during WWII. Notice the carbine in one GI's hands.

August 2, 1944: No "A" card needed, but the difficulties of filing the cavernous gas tanks of a C-47 cargo plane make "stateside" rationing problems child's play. From US Government sources.

American servicemen load or unload supplies from a US C-47 transport plane, tail #316189. Since, according the stories shared by veterans, African-American servicemen rarely made it into China, this must be outside of China, most likely India or Burma.