Two American flyers pose in Yangkai, China, during WWII.

Local people in Yunnan, China: A construction site, using a small wooden derrick to drive in piles or dig a well. During WWII.

A boat on a canal near a small bridge in rural Yunnan province, China, with American GIs looking on from bridge above. During WWII.

A group of farmers in plant-fiber rain gear walk between rice paddies in southern China, in Yunnan province. During WWII.

Local people in China: Chinese boys sitting before incense burner. During WWII.

The B-25H "Wabash Cannonball" with 'practice' bombs laying beneath the bomb bay. With no mission symbols or residue from the side-mounted machine guns on fuselage side this photo must have been taken soon after the aircraft was assigned to the 491st Bm Sq at Yangkai AB, China, in the spring of 1944.

Nose art detail on Wabash Cannonball. Photo annotation: "1007 Wabash Cannonball, Kealy 25, Yangkai, 1945."

American servicemen with the B-25H "Wabash Cannonball", of the 491st Bomb Squadron, in the CBI.