local people

Top image (above) is the the village immediately adjacent to the former Yangkai airbase during our visit in February on 2016. The local people refer to the base by the name of the village, Longyuan (龙院), and not by Yangkai (or Yangjie in standard Mandarin; 羊街), which is a larger village some distance away. This village was heavily influenced by...

Chinese interpreter explaining the procedure for serving a meal to a group of Miao (ethnic) workers at the Laohwangping (Laohuangping) Airfield, China, in January, 1945. The control tower for the airbase can be see in the distance on the left. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A laborer at an airbase in China. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A section of city wall and gate to Chenggong (Chengkung), possibly going back to the final days of the Ming Dynasty, 400 years before. Two Chinese men carry a wealthy Chinese merchant on a “hua-gan" (滑竿) pole chair. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

.50 cal machine gun being removed at Nanning Air Base during WWII by women laborers. 16 November 1944. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Local people in the Yangkai, Yunnan province, area. In the bottom image, Walter and another US serviceman can just be made out in back of the men who have risen from their meal in order to take the picture.