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Nurse LaRetta Matthews Garland at a rest camp in China, in image from Jim Lewter, who was stationed at the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming. Some of Nurse Garland's story below: From autumn 1943 until summer 1945, Lakeland native Lt. LaRetta “Matty” Matthews was “over the Hump,” a nurse with the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming, China. Five thousand miles...

Sgt. Bud Baldwin on Monkey Bridge, China, near Burma border, during WWII. Photo by Syd Greenberg.

GI's horse around in crashed biplane. In the CBI. Photo from Glenn Hensley.

George Pollock holds a captured Japanese Good-Luck Flag (寄せ書き日の丸) in China in 1945 which flew over the Lungling battlefield, later given to Ron Pettus for museum. Photos from George E. Pollock.

Chiang Kai-shek reviewing troops in China, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. Syd Greenberg.

Allied air drop in Sweli Valley, China, during WWII.

Chinese troops cross walkway (actually a long flat bottom boat) above water en route to Burma-China border front lines of the Salween River Campaign in 1944. Photo from T/Sgt. Syd Greenberg.

Clarence M. Miller leans from B-29 cockpit window. The 462th Bomb Group insignia reads "Hellbirds: With Malice Toward Some" around a B-29 silhouette. (Despite the photo being labeled as 467th BS, there is no record of such a squadron being assigned to the 462nd Bombardment Group. ---Thanks to Al Schutte for the update!) Photo from Clarence M. Miller.

A C-46 Dumbo cargo airplane, #112413, on the ground, with cargo handlers, in the CBI.

"Troops crossing Salween River by Hwi Tung [Huitong] footbridge, 8-2-44. US Army Photo 175-1." Burma. 2 August 1944. In the CBI. Above in an image collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (usually through reader submission) over many years of publication, and provided to the Remembering Shared Honor project.