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491st Bombardment Squadron crew stands before a B-25J at Yangkai AB, China in summer of 1944. Left to right; back row: Lt. Walter P. Guest (cp), Capt Albert V. Toney (p), Lt Albert A. Barling, Jr. (n), Lt. Curtis A. Siria [Curtis H Siria?] (b) front row: S/Sgt Ernest J. Ross (EG), T/Sgt Oliver D. Swanson (RG), S/Sgt Joe D...
Gen. Claire Chennault, Commander of 14th Air Force made a "surprise" visit to Yangkai in February 1944 to brief the flight leaders on a new bombing technique. Here he stands with officers of the 341st Bombardment Group (BmGrp), 11th, 22nd and 491st Bomb Squadrons. From left; Col. Caleb Haynes(?), Maj Edison Weatherly (22nd C.O.), Maj. James Callaway (491st CO), B.Gen...
S/Sgt Anthony DeLuceney operating the camera, 1st Lt Lloyd D. Wiler, sound man, in front of the camera. The case in front of Wiler contains the amplifier for the sound recorder in the camera (it was a variable area sound system.) Capt Howard Pennebaker in back of the camera. Pennebaker was originally the Unit Adjutant until spring of 45, then...
1St Lt. Lloyd D. Wiler, Sound Recorder at the amplifier of the Wahl camera. In the background, holding the microphone is T/Sgt Guy West. Guy was our Unit clerk in our early days. When I headed for Kweilin cover the action, Guy became the unit Sergeant Major. In the spring of 1945 He returned Stateside to the Signal Corps Photo...
Photographic technicians at work in a photo lab somewhere in the CBI.
An American at a base in China sitting on bomb tail fins.
A former Buddhist temple or ancestral hall or similar which has been taken over to be a school. In Yunnan province, China, during WWII.
A suspension bridge on the Salween river, Yunnan province, China.