491st Bomb Squadron---

B-25 Mitchell bombers take off from an airstrip, possibly Yangkai (Yangjie) air strip in Yunnan province, China.

B-25 Mitchell bombers take off (or land) from an airstrip, possibly Yangkai (Yangjie) air strip in Yunnan province, China.

B-25 Mitchell bomber, #438, takes off from an airstrip, at Yangkai (Yangjie) air strip in Yunnan province, China.

B-25 Mitchell bomber takes off from an airstrip, possibly Yangkai (Yangjie) air strip in Yunnan province, China.

B-25 Mitchell bombers take off (or land) from an airstrip, possibly Yangkai (Yangjie) air strip in Yunnan province, China.

Nose gear of this 491st B-25D Mitchell bomber has begun to retract as it takes off from Yang Chiseh Airfield, Yangkai, Yunnan province, China. This is an early "D" model which still has the retractable ventral (bottom) turret installed in the fuselage just behind the wing. These turrets used a periscope sighting system with gunner facing forward while kneeling over...

Images of escorting P-40 Warhawks with a painted shark's mouth somewhere over southern China, Indochina, or Burma during WWII, as taken from the tail gunner's window on a B-25 bomber. Close in is the P-40 nicknamed "Princess," tail number 155. Who is this man in the cockpit? This plane is likely of 75th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group.

A railway line above Yangzonghai lake (阳宗海) to the east of Kunming, near the U.S. Camp Schiel rest station.

Yangzonghai lake (阳宗海) to the east of Kunming, near the U.S. Camp Schiel rest station.

Mountains near the Camp Schiel rest station to the east of Kunming in Yunnan province, China. During WWII.