Remains of the old tennis courts at the American Camp Schiel rest camp, to the east of Kunming at the north end of Yangzonghai (阳宗海) lake, in 2007. (See a historical image of the tennis courts here.) At that time the rest camp had recently been abandoned by the PLA, who had used it for many years. Many of the...

Remains of the American Camp Schiel rest camp, to the east of Kunming at the north end of Yangzonghai (阳宗海) lake, in 2007. At that time the rest camp had recently been abandoned by the PLA, who had used it for many years. Many of the buildings and pathways were the original structures from the WWII era. In another visit...

Remains of the American Camp Schiel rest camp, to the east of Kunming at the north end of Yangzonghai (阳宗海) lake, in 2007. At that time the rest camp had recently been abandoned by the PLA, who had used it for many years. Many of the buildings and pathways were the original structures from the WWII era. In another visit...

The mountains that Americans so often hiked near the remains of the American Camp Schiel rest camp, to the east of Kunming at the north end of Yangzonghai (阳宗海) lake, in 2007. At that time the rest camp had recently been abandoned by the PLA, who had used it for many years. Many of the buildings and pathways were the...

Remains of the American Camp Schiel rest camp, to the east of Kunming at the north end of Yangzonghai (阳宗海) lake, in 2007. At that time the rest camp had recently been abandoned by the PLA, who had used it for many years. Many of the buildings and pathways were the original structures from the WWII era. In another visit...

Bags are piled in cargo plane ready for aerial drop to Allied troops. Some will be dropped with parachutes to slow the drop (those in the distance in the image), and some will be dropped directly. In the CBI.

November 14, 1944 Control Malariologist D. D. Sorrentino using blood smear kit of his own design on a Chinese soldier in China during WWII. Photo by Pvt. Thomas Melvin.

Joe Wiley, "Rocky" Taurisano, Marlin Reese probably at an American base in Guilin, China.