1943

Photo lab personnel stateside in Idaho on November 1, 1943, before shipping off for the CBI. During WWII.

GIs swimming at Panther Pool at a rest camp in the CBI in 1943. Photo from Earl Lavinder, 323rd Service Squadron, 305th Service Group, APO 690.

T/Sgt. Harold D. Robertson (inset in image), ASN 17052777, disappeared during an L-5 flight on 7 May 1944. (Also in the image is Rex Davis, and Floyd Whitney; image taken at Desert Army Air Base, California, summer 1943. Image provided by 5th Liaison Squadron Flight Line Chief R. J. Koppel.) Entered military service from Clay County, Arkansas. Admitted to hospital...

Cpl. Silver, radio operator, and a Communist guard at Dixie Mission compound, Yenan (Yan'an) China, May 1945.

A GI under the shade 0f a big banyan tree, May 9, 1943, in the CBI. Photo from Walt De Blair.

GIs visiting US military graves at Kunming. In the background are markers for the deceased, including for one of 2nd Lt. George R. Barnes, #0-79770, 74th Fighter Squadron, deceased July 24, 1943 at Lingling, Hunan province. Photo from Warren C. Smith. George R. Barnes, entered the Service From: Pennsylvania, Cumberland County. "KIA"

A burial at sea for PFC Clorala Willard (this name is correct, not name on photo), of the 308th Bomb Group, 425th Bomb Squadron, on March 2, 1943 on the way back to the US after serving in the CBI. In the CBI.

Captured Japanese I97 fighter at Kunming, China, 1943. Photo from Beverly Hodges.

A captured Japanese airplane in 1943 and an American pilot (who is noted to have supposedly died) in the CBI during WWII in 1943.

Donald James Coolidge, US Army Corps Of Engineers, spent the whole period of April 1943 to March 1946 as a "white" lieutenant with several different US Army Corps Engineer regiments, and was in Burma November 1944 to March 1946. He worked with African-American soldiers, and notes with emphasis that "My service with them was fascinating and I learned that all...