1944

Bridge demolition during the evacuation before the Japanese Ichigo advance in 1944, in Guangxi province.

Press conference with Public Relations Office of the 14th Air Force on 4 September 1944 in China. In the CBI during WWII.

CHINESE AIRMEN GET AMERICAN TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT, 29 January 1944. Communications is an important phase in the training of the Chinese American Composite Wing (CACW) . Here, on January 29, 1944, Lt. Kwang Chao-Li checks a defective radio receiver at a test bench in the hanger. Sgt. Anthony Puflia, Paterson, New Jersey, left, stands by to offer assistance while Sgt...

China-- Each U.S. Air Force is divided into Wings. Wings consist of several groups. They in turn are subdivided into Fighter Squadrons and Bombardment Squadrons. The Chinese American Composite Wing (CACW) of Maj. Gen. C. L. Chennault's (with helmet and brief case) 14th Air Force is the only one of its kind in the world. Brig. Gen. W.C. Morse (hands...

Chinese American Composite Wing (CACW)--2nd Bomb Squadron, B-25J #607, had a main gear tire blow out on take off. The pilot managed to complete the takeoff but had to perform a wheels up landing. In 1944, probably at Hanchung, China. In China during WWII. By the 16Th Combat Camera Unit. Images courtesy of Tony Strotman (extra on-image annotations by Tony...

Runway at Liuchow (Liuzhou) air base, China (prior to evacuation in 1944), during WWII. By the 16Th Combat Camera Unit . Images courtesy of Tony Strotman (extra on-image annotations by Tony Strotman).

Interdicted by the Flying Tigers since they evacuated on November 7, 1944, the former 14th Air Force advanced base at Liuchow (Liuzhou), vital railroad and highway junction in central Kwangsi (Guangxi) and in the path of general Japanese withdrawals from the Lung Valley and Siang corridor that end the Japanese dreams of a Greater East Asia land line from Singapore...

Outfitted with a garrison cap, a tiny pistol and cut-down GI pants, Saio Lau Hu (otherwise known as "Little Tiger Joe") works his little legs like pistons trying to keep up with his foster fathers, during WWII in China, fall 1944.

"Little Tiger Joe," Chinese refugee baby adopted by one of the units of the 14th Air Force, is shown here framed by an ancient Chinese doorway, during WWII in China.

"Little Tiger Joe" stands inspection right along with his foster fathers, the 907th Engineers in the CBI (China) during WWII.