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[Merchant Marines and Navy servicemen after their liberation from Shamshuipo internment camp]
Photographic group portrait of U.S. Merchant Marines and U.S. Navy servicemen after their liberation from the Shamshuipo internment camp, Kunming Air Base, China, circa 1940s. The tail of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft (tail number 315854) is visible behind them. Typed on verso: "Hqs. Tenth Air Force, China Theater--Merchant Marine and Navy men recently liberated from Shamshuipo camp, Kowloon,…
[Servicemen sitting in room covered with pinup posters]
Photograph of two U.S. Army Air Forces servicemen sitting in the Adjutant General's Radio Message Center at Tenth Air Force Headquarters, Kunming, China, circa 1940s. The walls are covered with pinup posters of women.Typed on verso: "Hqs. Tenth Air Force, China -- Hands down winner as the 'most pinned-up staff room' at Tenth Air Force Headquarters, Kunming, is the Adjutant General's Radio Message…
[General Claire Lee Chennault and staff]
Photographic group portrait of General Claire Lee Chennault (front row, second from right) and his staff in front of a large map, Kunming, China, circa 1940s. Individuals are identified by their last name and first and middle initials on verso. Inscription on verso: "Kunming, China. Gen. Chennault's staff: Front L to R: Dr. E. W. Bruce - Dental Surgeon, C. E. Smith - Adjutant, H. K. Greenlaw -…
[Major General Albert F. Hegenberger receiving his second star from Brigadier General Aubry L. Moore]
Photograph of Major General Albert F. Hegenberger, U.S. Army Air Forces, receiving his second star from Brigadier General Aubry L. Moore at Tenth Air Force Headquarters in Kunming, China, circa 1945-1946. Includes a typed memorandum from Headquarters Army Air Forces, China Theater, to Air Forces Group, War Department Bureau of Public Relations, noting that photographs have been forwarded related…
[Armed servicemen standing guard outside Tenth Air Force compound near Kunming, China]
Photograph of armed servicemen standing guard outside a Tenth Air Force compound near Kunming, China, circa October 1945.Typed on verso: "HQ., Tenth Air Force, China---The war was over/months ago, but these soldiers of the Tenth Air Force, caught in the middle of a conflict in Kunming, Oct. 3 were still pulling guard duty, carrying weapons and blacking out at night. Firing between the Chinese…