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797th Engineer Forestry Company mill in Burma, cutting beams and delivering them for bridge building along the Burma Road. During WWII.

797th Engineer Forestry Company mill in Burma, cutting beams for bridge building along the Burma Road. During WWII.

Gilbert Charles Weber was a member of the 797th Engineer Forestry Company, station in Burma during WWII. Gilbert Weber was born on April 22, 1924, and graduated from Rockville High School in the class of 1942 and was then employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. Gilbert Weber registered for the draft on June 30, 1942...

As tail gunner Sgt. Grady was able to see a collision on October 26, 1943, between B-24 "Boogie Woogie Bomb Buggy" and a Japanese Zero fighter, and his official statement was: "As Tail Gunner on the lead ship of the second element, I was in a good position to see the B-24 go down. I glanced at the B-24 in...

Pair of images showing progress of bombing of a compound with buildings in the CBI, likely in Burma, during WWII.

Aerial view of bombing of air base, likely in Burma. During WWII.

Cpl. Elmer Eugene Zobb, a crew chief in the 396th Air Service Squadron, 12th Air Service Group, was lost upon crash of a B-24, #41-23889 (which had been converted to transport configuration), after departure at around noon January 25, 1944, from Barrackpore, India, for a flight to Chabua, India, when the weather closed at Chabua, despite final contact with the...

A temple structure in Burma (or India) and a western-style building with Nationalist insignia somewhere in China during WWII.

Scenes of rural life along the Burma Road during WWII.