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1944

Guilin after being burned by Allies during retreat of summer/fall 1944
A civilian family of westerners on a military C-47 transport in the CBI during WWII, on June 8, 1944.
Result of explosives set on bridge by Americans in 1944 during retreat from Japanese in Guangxi province, China, during WWII. See GI setting explosives here.
Setting explosives on bridge in 1944 during retreat from Japanese in Guangxi province, China, during WWII. The results of the explosion can be seen here.
In the midst of calamity, a refugee mother tenderly washes her baby next to the train at the Liuzhou railway station in the fall of 1944.
A young boy sits among discarded furniture, presumably items that had ultimately been discarded, during their flight in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign in fall 1944.
Chinese refugees take a meal in front of the train engine in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.
Chinese refugee--a young girl in this case--tends a cooking fire to boil water next to the train tracks in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.
Chinese wait at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.
Chinese refuges tends a cooking fire to boil water next to the train tracks in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.