491st Bombardment Squadron

A carved wooden door panel in China. During WWII.

A B-25 gets work, most likely at Yangkai. During WWII.

George Butsika working under wing of B-25. Yangkai, May 1944.

Pete, Elmer, Frank Bates, and a Chinese guard pose in the revetment of B-25D, #55, 491st Bombardment Squadron, at Yangkai AB, 1944. (Info courtesy Tony Strotman)

A carved wooden door panel in China. During WWII.

A carved wooden door screen in China. During WWII.

An ornate wooden surround for a doorway in China, for a building/courtyard taken over by Nationalist military or government. During WWII.

Gasing #448, Liuzhou, June 1944.

American service men and women pose before "Old 59," March 1944.

Maj. Joseph Callaway, 491st Bombardment Squadron C.O., Capt. Robert Ebey (pilot - Old 59) and 1Lt Paul Sjoberg (copilot) observe as well-wishers offer a safe journey to other crew members of "Old 59" (in flight suits), prior to departing Yangkai for the USA in March 1944. 'Old 59', a B-25D, had completed over 200 combat missions in Burma and China...