491st Bombardment Squadron

Smoke rises from probable American air attacks on Japanese ground troops, probably in Guangxi province, probably during the Japanese Ichigo campaign of 1944.

In these remarkable two images, we see a small town in Guangxi Province, SW China, being bombed by American B-25 bombers. In the upper image, just seconds before the bombs hit, one can see the streets filled tightly with trucks of a convoy, with many people milling or running about. This is during the Japanese 'Ichigo' push of summer or...

B-25 Mitchell bombers have just bombed a railroad bridge a bridge somewhere in southwest China, Indochina, or Burma, leading to no apparent damage, but a large cloud of dust and smoke. See a fascinating image of the bombing preceding this here.

This is an exceptional image, which says so much about the superior state of American air power in the CBI as the war progressed. In this image, a bridge somewhere in southwest China, Indochina, or Burma, is bombed by American B-25s, running in very fast at almost tree-top level (notice the perspective of the camera, which is very close to...

A mountain pokes through the clouds during a war time flight of US planes.

Mountains in SW China from the air.