S/Sgt. Harold V. Rightbower was a gunner on B-24J #42-73315 assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. He and the remainder of the crew tragically lost on take off on August 14, 1944 from a Kurmitola, India, on the way to Liuzhou, China. See more on that event here. S/Sgt. Rightbower was born May 28...

2nd Lt. Lyle L. Schulzkump, pilot of B-24 #42-100040, that disappeared on May 26, 1944, on a L.A.B. mission. About this flight, of a Consolidated B-24J-65-CO Liberator, http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1942_5.html says: "Crashed into mountain 50 mi S of Mengtze, China near present border of Vietnam May 26, 1944 while on radar recon mission to Hainan Island. All aboard killed. From China Up...

Originally 11th Bombardment Squadron. Mother Florence Sayer, sister one year younger, Jay C. He resided in Twin Falls County, Idaho prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on December 20, 1941 in Portland, Oregon. ASN: 19005450 Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) #5346 We have learned a bit about him from kind family members, but we would...

Elden E. Shirley, S/Sgt., from Saco, Maine, bombardier on the B-25, lost in the CBI on 8 May 1943. A marker listing him and most of the crew was placed at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Section 82 Site 202, 2900 Sheridan Road, St. Louis, Mo. (Image at top, and much information, courtesy of Tony Strotman.)

1st Lt. Folke Leon Johnson, A.S.N. 0-799026. Lt. Johnson was on a 308th Bombardment Group B-24 (listed as "Old Acquaintance", #44-40826). He and the remainder of the crew were MIA on December 18, 1944 (declared deceased December 19, 1945) on a flight off the coast of China. He entered the service from Virginia. Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Purple...

James D. McDowell, 2nd Lt., ID: O-515741, Missing in Action (MIA) in the CBI during WWII. Originally from Vincennes, IN, 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...

Yunnan (China), three young men employed as housekeepers and launderers sitting with Bert Krawczyk: "These are three houseboys from the airbase at Luliang. Houseboys were provided by the Chinese government under a reverse lend-lease program. The China War Area Service Command administered the program. This command was set up by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to take care of the food and...

John Jacob Gerber in uniform and with Army Air Forces WWII Shoulder Patch, in hand-colored image. John Gerber, born February 24, 1924, served in the 322nd Troop Carrier Squadron in the CBI during WWII. John Gerber finished 12th grade at Hinckley High School, in Hinckley, Ohia in 1942, then worked a half year at Thompson Aircraft, in Cleveland, running a...