The facilities at the Hengyang airbase burn as the allies retreat in the face of the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944.

Chinese workers and Nationalist soldiers build a fortified bunker at a street corner in a town in Guangxi province, during WWII, in the summer or fall of 1944 during the Japanese push south in the Ichigo campaign.

Chennault and others making the decision to blow up the air base before the Japanese advance, fall of 1944, in Guilin.

Retreating at the very last minute from Liuzhou in the face of the Japanese Ichigo advance. During WWII.

Getting a few last vehicles across a bridge at Liuzhou before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944. The bridge decking planks have been removed, but there are enough free planks that by moving a few planks, then moving forward a bit on those planks, then moving a few more planks, the jeep can creep across. To see a...

Allied destruction at Guilin before retreating in front of the Japanese advance in the summer/fall of 1944. From the collection of Hal Geer.

A WWII Guilin destroyed with fire by the allies before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944. See another view before the city burned.

Chinese civilians looking over a bridge destroyed near Liuzhou before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944.