Ex-CBI Roundup

Chief Flight Surgeon, Col. Donald A. Flickinger, ATC (left), poses with W/O Fred "Pop" Henley, Sanitary Engineer, at a tea plantation near Tezpur, India, in December 1944.

Parallel Bailey bridges 14 miles south of Myitkina form a two lane crossing for two way military traffic. Photo from Henry Behmer.

Ival Baker shows souvenir captured Japanese flag, while his bodyguard watches on. During WWII, in China. Photo from Ival Baker.

John Bondurant at the controls of a US military plane during WWII in the CBI. Photo from John Bondurant.

A GI pretends to fight a tiger in a fake forest in a studio in the CBI during WWII.

A parachute forms a backdrop in this Chapel in Kunming in 1945. Father Charles F. Meeus celebrates mass. The Father's pulpit is the cowling for the P-40K "Little Flower" flown by Ray Kaiser (25th FS). "Little Flower" was St Therese from Lisieux, France. (Thanks JBarbaud) Notice the corrugated metal making up the lower area of the alter, also likely parts...

Large aircraft hanger at the base at Dudkhundi, India, during WWII. Photo from John W. Sperl.

GIs washing mess kits at camp in Guilin (Kweilin), during WWII. In the CBI.

Frank Bond examines discarded "invasion currency" on a Rangoon, Burma, street near Bank of India, where it had been dumped during evacuation. Spring 1945. See alternative image here.

The Mitsubishi transport aircraft that brought Japanese officers for surrender ceremonies at Zhijiang (Chihkiang), August 21, 1945. Photo from M. J. Hollman.