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9th Bombardment Squadron Personnel With B-24

Possibly personnel of the 9th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, 10th Air Force.  Posing on B-24 bomber, with small Chinese boy. During WWII. This seems to be the same group as in this image.  Some names:  Barry Diamond. Bronx, New York.  Joe T. Daniels. North Carolina.  "Sam" Isamu S. Higurashi. Seattle, WA. ASN 37716688.  Dan Holland. Chicago, Illinois.  Tom Livingford. Lewistown, PA.  Bill Muir. Concord, New Hampshire.  C. N. Gordon. Seattle, WA.  L. L. Penson. De Queen, Arkansas.  Dom P. Tatan
Identifiable is "Sam" Isamu S. Higurashi, Military Intelligence, trained in Japanese linguists at the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS), Sec 8 (Graduated Camp Savage, Minnesota, July 1943). He was serving the US in China while his family was being held at the Minidoka War Relocation Center internment camp in Jerome County, Idaho.

Kneeling far left in image above, identifiable is "Sam" Isamu S. Higurashi, Military Intelligence. He trained in Japanese linguistics at the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS), Sec 8 (Graduated Camp Savage, Minnesota, July 1943). A Nisei soldier, he was serving the US in China while his family was being held at the Minidoka War Relocation Center internment camp in Jerome County, Idaho. He had been initially accepted, into the 442nd Combat Team, from the internment camp.

Possibly personnel of the 9th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, 10th Air Force.  Posing on B-24 bomber, with small Chinese boy. During WWII. This seems to be the same group as in this image.

Some names:

Barry Diamond. Bronx, New York.

Joe T. Daniels. North Carolina.

"Sam" Isamu S. Higurashi. Seattle, WA. ASN 37716688.

Dan Holland. Chicago, Illinois.

Tom Livingford. Lewistown, PA.

Bill Muir. Concord, New Hampshire.

C. N. Gordon. Seattle, WA.

L. L. Penson. De Queen, Arkansas.

Dom P. Tatangelo. Schenectady, New York.

Bill Laccer. Detroit, MI.

G. D. Papachristen. 

M. E. Young. Denver, Colorado.

 

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