491st Bombardment Squadron

"With Chinese Military Guard Standing Close By, Ground Crew Of The 14Th Air Force Work On A North American B-25, Preparing It For Another Raid On Enemy Installations." This is likely B-25D-15, #41-30381, assigned to the 491BS/341BG while the unit was stationed at Chakulia. A ground crew of the 341st Bombardment Group does maintenance to the tail gunner position on...

Area around the Great Pyramid, likely taken during Mazer's journey to the CBI. During WWII. It is quite possible that Mazer deployed overseas as a replacement aboard ATC transport aircraft, not knowing to what unit/plane he would be assigned until his arrival in India or China. If so, this eclectic group might even be a sampling of the people on...

American flyers pose with Col. Tex Hill in China during WWII. L-R: Bochan, Col. Tex Hill, Cayama, Mazer.

Two American flyers with A-26C Invader warplane (or B-26/RB-26). Seymour Mazer on the left. The 491st began converting to the A-26 in late July 1945. However, the 491st planes would likely not have been all black (i.e., a night intruder aircraft) which typically was not done until Korea-era. Mazer would have been navigator, the other officer wears pilot's wings. This...

"Ike" - Me - Erick --- "Three Shavetails" Crew posing with a B-24J and map. Given that Mazer is a just commissioned "shavetail" 2nd Lt, this image is early in his career, likely while in navigator training stateside (or just possibly enroute to the CBI). During WWII. Notice that the photographer or a censor has whited-out the plane serial number...

Crew with a B-24J. Given that Mazer is a just commissioned "shavetail" 2nd Lt, this image is early in his career, likely while in navigator training stateside (or just possibly enroute to the CBI). Notice that the photographer or a censor has whited-out the plane serial number and other info. Joe Considine, Skiles, Erickson, Eisenstat, Schumacher, Pete Abrogast, Zimmerman, Axtell...

American WWII flyer "Louie Gassett" with B-25s #1007, #445 "Reckless Virgin," and #442 by itself. The flyer's name being indicated as "Louie," and this almost certainly 2Lt Douglas H. Gassett, pilot; assigned 491st BS on 1 Apr 44. In the middle image, of B-25H Mitchell bomber "Shark Mouth" of Ringer Squadron, the 'radio call' number is marked here as #442...

Service men and women in Egypt, along with presumably their guide, in front of the Great Pyramid, likely taken during Mazer's journey to the CBI. During WWII. It is quite possible that Mazer deployed overseas as a replacement aboard ATC transport aircraft, not knowing to what unit/plane he would be assigned until his arrival in India or China. If so...

Seymour Mazer in June, 1942. 1st Lt. Seymour Mazer was born on January 7, 1922 to Joseph and Mollie Mazer as their first child in the Bronx, NY. Later his family added a younger brother Jerome. Seymour graduated from Dewitt Clinton High School and married Claire Kellerman in 1942. They had two children, Robert (USMC), and Mark. Their father Joseph...

Crew of 341st Bombardment Group with B-25 in China on October 26, 1944. Radio--Name unclear, but possibly William J. Rhoades, S/Sgt, radio-gunner; assigned 23 May 44. Pilot - 2Lt. Trent Biswell, Jr.; assigned 14 Mar 44. Tail gun - David E Murphy, Jr., T/Sgt; assigned 10 Feb 44, listed as engineer-gunner on several missions; usually would have been dorsal turret...