Three old men and a boy with new clothes, Yangkai Village, Spring 1945.

American GI is pith hat at Karachi Air Base, India 1942.

Pete, Elmer, Frank Bates, and a Chinese guard pose in the revetment of B-25D, #55, 491st Bombardment Squadron, at Yangkai AB, 1944. (Info courtesy Tony Strotman)

491st Bombardment Squadron mechanics - Gibbs, Butsika, McArdle, Lacher, Pete, Beausoleil, unknown, Kealy - at Yangkai in the spring of 1944. Of special interest is the number of machine guns sticking from the nose of the "green house." The original B-25Ds had one flexible gun in the center, operated by the bombardier or navigator. Later, 'official' modifications would add two...

#444 at engine change, Yangkai, China, July 1944 Hammett, Basil Turko, Aspinwall, Bert, unk., and Burns From the collection of Frank Bates.

Tibetan natives, ruins of Rang Ghar at Sibsagar, and Mr. and Mrs. Reid, tea planters at Nowgong, India. During WWII.

"The last troops to leave Burma and North India." Top image: Capt. Adams, Lt. Scott, Lt. Robins, and Lt. Pribyl. Bottom image: Lt. Zimmerman, Lt. Norman Stanley, Capt. Wexler, and Lt. Pribyl.

William J. Pribyl, Jr., 961st Petroleum Products Laboratory, in various poses in India: In front of tent, on motorcycle, reading a book, with a dog. During WWII.