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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.

Japanese transport in the Gulf of Martaban. Bomb run from 4000 ft with eight 500 lb bombs. Pilot Lt. Sloan, 9th Bomb Squadron. February 27, 1943.

A parachute forms a backdrop in this Chapel in Kunming in 1945. Father Charles F. Meeus celebrates mass. The Father's pulpit is the cowling for the P-40K "Little Flower" flown by Ray Kaiser (25th FS). "Little Flower" was St Therese from Lisieux, France. (Thanks JBarbaud) Notice the corrugated metal making up the lower area of the alter, also likely parts...

A funeral procession preparing to head out for burial ground in a Burma Road Chinese village during WWII. In the CBI. Photo by Syd Greenberg.

Farming in China: Farmer resting on wheelbarrow.

Farming in China. In the CBI.

Farming in China. In the CBI. Photo from Roland E. Speckman.

"The observation platform atop the control tower at liberated Hankou (Hankou) Air Base was an excellent place to pitch a pyramidal." During WWII.

Farming in China. In the CBI.

Japanese nurses assemble for morning call at the Wuchang Hospital after the hostilities had ceased. Photo by Way. In the CBI.