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The “Remembering Shared Honor” (RSH) project sets out to collect and preserve oral histories related to Chinese and American cooperation during the Second World War in the China-Burma-India(CBI) theater of war.
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Flight "A" 24th Mapping Squadron
Flight "A" of 24th Mapping Squadron at APO 690, Gushkara, India. March 1945.
With B-24/F-7.
John Wolfshorndl in back row, fourth from the right.Lt. Herbert Akelman, second row from bottom, third in from the right. Lt. Akelman was a pilot with service in the CBI with over 100 missions flown. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross Medal as well as the WWII Victory Medal. (Thanks to son A. Akelman.)Lt. Donald J. Lochner, is front row, center. Discharged Capt. DFC-SM, AM, OLC. Auburn, Indiana. (Thanks to nephew M. Lochner.) Lt. Lochner was a Medal of Valor recipient in India in 1945.