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Photos of Jeeps on the Stilwell Road in Life Magazine

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Life Magazine captured the scene when a convoy of jeeps and trucks navigated over the Burma road and reached Kunming, China, for the first time. The article is called “Life Goes Over the Stilwell Road” and was published in the March 12, 1945, issue on page 117.

This link gives more context to the images and shows them all: http://cbi-theater-2.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-2/overroad/overroad.html

You can read the original article in full on google: http://books.google.com/books?id=9lIEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=march+1948+magazine+jeep&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YbHtUrzoGZK7oQSa1IKgBQ&ved=0CFQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22kunming%20after%20a%20journey%20of%201%2C000%20miles%22&f=false

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