“This is a B-25 C/F/G I worked on in 2 years in India & China.The plane was in Alameda, CA helping to celebrate Navy/Fleet Week in Oct. 1995" --Frank Willard Bates, Sr. Frank W. Bates was a member of 491st Bomb Squadron, and served in the CBI during WWII. Assigned to 491st on December 1, 1942 as an Aircraft Maintenance...

At #444's engine change, Yangkai, China, July 1944. S/Sgt Domonique Beaudetter, T/Sgt George Butsika, S/Sgt Elmer Peterson, S/Sgt Joseph Burns, M/Sgt John Aspinwall, T/Sgt Karl Hammett, S/Sgt Frank Bert. (Info courtesy Tony Strotman)

Campout at Qingshuihai lake (清水海) : Wilbur Carter, Clarence Hall, end on right is Harry Gordon. See the same image in the Wozniak collection here.

Local school kids pose in courtyard of school in Yunnan province, China, during WWII, at the Songming County Xiaogu Central Elementary School (嵩明县效古中心小学校). A higher resolution version can be found here.

30 month party, April 6, 1945. Possibly at Yangkai. Center, rear Frank Bates.

81 revet., Chaukulia, India 1943. Milton Rose, Beaudetter, Glen McCutcheon, Dick Seavy, Jim Lane.

Assembled Men Of 491st. Second row, right Frank Bates; third row center, Capt Bill De Vries, Engineering Officer (in wheel hat).

An American flyer, signed by Frank Bates' "old pal, Ozzie [Arndt]." June 4, 1944.