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491st Bombardment Squadron

Celebrities visit and perform at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII: Performer does a rope act for the GIs, as caught by Wozniak in long-exposure photography.
Celebrities visit China during WWII: General Claire L. Chennault with USO entertainers in Kunming, China, October 26, 1944, including Jinx Falkenburg, Betty Yeaton, and Jimmy Dodd.
Celebrities visit China, during WWII: Paulette Goddard.
Celebrities visit and perform at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII: Ruth Dennis poses with the accordion and a happy GI.
A VIP visitor signs a short-snorter on the back of an American GI, during WWII. An American in the CBI.
Paulette Goddard hanging onto a Y-force jeep, during WWII.
Celebrities visit and perform at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII: Mary Landa, Ann Sheridan, Ruth Dennis pose with B-25 with Sheridan's image as nose art.
Celebrities visit and perform at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII: Jinx Falkenburg poses with a Chinese soldier while she autographs a tennis ball.
Celebrities visit and perform at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII: Unknown celebrity or VIP.
Celebrities visit and perform at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII: Happy GI poses with two starlets 0n the stage at Last Resort.