At #444's engine change, Yangkai, China, July 1944. S/Sgt Domonique Beaudetter, T/Sgt George Butsika, S/Sgt Elmer Peterson, S/Sgt Joseph Burns, M/Sgt John Aspinwall, T/Sgt Karl Hammett, S/Sgt Frank Bert. (Info courtesy Tony Strotman)

Campout at Qingshuihai lake (清水海) : Wilbur Carter, Clarence Hall, end on right is Harry Gordon. See the same image in the Wozniak collection here.

Local school kids pose in courtyard of school in Yunnan province, China, during WWII, at the Songming County Xiaogu Central Elementary School (嵩明县效古中心小学校). A higher resolution version can be found here.

30 month party, April 6, 1945. Possibly at Yangkai. Center, rear Frank Bates.

81 revet., Chaukulia, India 1943. Milton Rose, Beaudetter, Glen McCutcheon, Dick Seavy, Jim Lane.

Assembled Men Of 491st. Second row, right Frank Bates; third row center, Capt Bill De Vries, Engineering Officer (in wheel hat).

An American flyer, signed by Frank Bates' "old pal, Ozzie [Arndt]." June 4, 1944.

Frank B. DiPaola, Private First Class, Missing in Action (MIA) in the CBI during WWII. Originally from Hartford, CT, he was lost with three other members of the crew on a flight from Jorhat, India, to Chengtu (Chengdu), China, on 15 May 1944, while flying in a C-87 (a variant of the B-24 airframe modified to carry cargo), as part...