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Purple Heart awarding ceremony. Squadron color guard in front of recipients of Purple Heart in the rear. Squadron CO, Major Bundy at left. At HQ compound for 14th Air Force. Near Kunming, China, in 1944. In the CBI.

A religious procession in Karachi, India, 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...

Religiously devoted men in India take part in self-flagellation and self-mutilation as a public performance of devotion to their gods. During WWII.

Gifts/awards presented by Chinese officials to American officers in southern China. Edgar E. Glenn, Henry E. Strickland, Morris F. Taber, Jesse C. Williams, Fred C. Thomasen, Robert A. Waidner, Claire L. Chennault, and two Chinese merchants In the CBI during WWII.

Claire Chennault at Yangkai, February, 1945, during decoration formation.

Col. Clark (far left) and Claire Chennault (middle) at Yangkai, February, 1945, during decoration formation.

1st Lt. Robert L. Logan stands at attention as ta Chinese Air Force staff officer adjusts his new Chinese Air Force Wings. Lt. Logan received his wings based on his service in CACW, as a leader of the "Spray and Pray Squadron."

Members of the 61st Air Service Group marching in review on June 21, 1944, at LAAF (Laguna Army Airfield).

"5529-116 A funeral in the CBI. Someone reads over a coffin with an American flag draped over its top, resting on a lawn somewhere in the CBI."