At the Tengchong cutoff: Convoy driver S/Sgt. Michale P. Havery, is shown lighting up cigarette of a Chinese soldier. Yunnan Province on March 4, 1945. Photo by T/Sgt. Greenberg. Passed by William E. Whitten.

GI map of Kunming, APO 627, issued by the U.S. Office of War Information.

1st Lt. Irving Woodrow DeGon was killed on January 20, 1944, Chabua, India, in a plane crash while piloting a C-46 (#741) during a take off from an airfield, along with crew members named Smith, Shea, and Gray. He was starting his 8th month as a transport pilot in the India-China Wing Army Transportation Corps (ICWATC), and had made 30...

WWII era pin up girl in repose, collected by Lt. Irving DeGon.

WWII era pin up girl, smoking a cigarette, 1942. Collected by Lt. Irving DeGon.

WWII era pin up girl, 1942. Collected by Lt. Irving DeGon.

WWII era pin up girl, on a swing, 1942. Collected by Lt. Irving DeGon.

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...