1943

The Transportation personnel of the 491st Bomb Squadron, Chakulia Air Base, India, 1943.

Brigadier General Caleb V. Haynes (left) and Colonel Torgils G. Wold (right) pose with Eddie Rickenbacker during his visit to the CBI theater. The photos were taken during a stop over at Chakulia Air Base, India, in the spring of 1943. Richenbacher had come to India to review and offer suggestions on improving efficiency of the transport flights over "the...

Unidentified members, probably an aircrew, beside a B-25C of the 491st Bombardment Squadron at Chakulia, India, sometime in 1943.

B-25s of the 491st Bomb Squadron at Chakulia AB, India in 1943.

Three aircraft of the 491st Bm Sq, including B-25C, 42-64650, and B-25D, 41-29930, fly in formation somewhere over the Naga Hills in Burma in 1943.

A historical image of the Laiyan Pagoda (来雁塔) at Hengyang, taken on July 29, 1943, and little different from the modern appearance seen here.

Lt. Harold Ellis Greenberg (seen here in his high school graduation picture), India China Wing ATC, was tragically lost on 20 December 1943. Much appreciation to the family of Mr. Greenberg for sharing with us about this member of your family, and to Sheldon Goldberg, Lt. Colonel, USAF (Ret.), at JWV Lt. Harold E. Greenberg Post #692 for such great...

On December 30, 1943 two American B-25s bombers took off from the Suichuan airbase (Jiangxi province) and proceeded north to search the Yangtze (Changjiang) river for Japanese targets of opportunity. Finding a Japanese gunboad on the river near Anqing city (Anking) in Anhui province, the first B-25 made an attack run on the ship, then the second plane followed, but...

S/Sgts Tischendorf and Chibnik, 1st Lts. Zeidler, Perdue, Maj. McCarten, and Capt. Southworth, who had just returned to squadron after being forced down in Burma on their return from a mission on 12 August 1943. Somewhere in the CBI.

Throughout the world the American soldiers' fondness for children has become well known and in China it is no exception. Scores of orphans have been adopted by men of the Major-General C. L. Chennault\'s Fourteenth Air Force. here Staff Sergeant Elwood Clark of 2922 Coleman Ave., Corpus Christi, Texas, is shown holding Marie Liu, 6-year old girl who was found...