491st Bombardment Squadron

Jim Lane in tail gun (.50 cal.) put in B-25 #81, summer of 1943, Chaukulia, India, as a field modification (see more about this modification here). This should be B-25D-15, #41-30381, assigned to the 491BS/341BG while the unit was stationed at Chakulia. (Thanks for the research and information supplied by Yves Marino and Tony Strotman.)

Jim Lane in first 25 tail gun (.50 cal.) position put in as a field modification by Red Cummings, about August, 1943, Chaukulia, India (see more background about this modification here). This should be B-25D-15, #41-30381, assigned to the 491BS/341BG while the unit was stationed at Chakulia. (Thanks for the research and information supplied by Yves Marino and Tony Strotman.)

Mike, Jim, Frank Bates, Chaukulia, India, 1943. 491st Bombardment Squadron. [On copy mailed home from China in 1944] Mike & Jimmie Lane are long hone home. That's Carmen there. I hear the old gal is still going strong in India. The picture is over a year old, back in the good old days.

Jim, Frank Bates, Alex, Jim, 1943, in the shade under a B-25. Note large bombs on ground near them.

81's revet, Chaukulia, India, 1943. Don Chisholm, Jim Lane, Mike Zamenski.

Lemmon, unknown, Red Cummings, Peterson, Gibbs. Arming 100 lb. bombs, and goofing for the camera at the same time, in a revetment. During WWII. Probably at Yangkai.

Personnel of 491 Bombardment Group about June 1943, Chaukulia, India. Notice the open engine cowling. During WWII.

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

Indian soldiers guard B-25 Mitchell bomber. Probably India, 1942 or 1943.

A GI and a woman carrying a pot on here head. India 1942 or 1943.