Gornick

Christmas 1944 in one of the 491st Bm Sq enlisted men's hostels at Yangkai base, Yunnan province, China. In his book "Diary of A Bomb Squadron" McKay Nelson wrote, "Christmas was celebrated quietly. A truckload of Christmas packages for the squadron came in, early in the evening. Midnight Mass had to be cancelled due to a 'Jing Bao' air raid...

Luichow Kid LD Jones, William "Wild Bill" Gornik (engineer-gunner; on the right, sitting on the bunk), Schmidt, CE Jones. Christmas at Yangkai, China 1944. From the collection of Frank Bates.

Yangkai, China, Early 1945. Front ?Lecher, Schmidt, Clark, Penny, Routon. Rear ?Bryan, Gornick, Gebhardt, Williams, Vollmer, Arndt.

Barracks area in Yangkai, Spring 1945. Hunter Toms, Joe Burns, Bill Gornick, Syd Nyreen.

Johnson, Macaluso, Gornick, Lemmon pose with a crashed "Rum Runner" B-25 in Liuzhou June 1944. William "Wild Bill" Gornick completed his required 200 combat flying hours on "Rum Runner" as it crash landed following a mission against Tien Ho airbase. Bill assisted the maintenance personnel with salvaging all the useable parts they could until he left for the USA a...

Johnson, Macaluso, Wild Bill Gornick, Lemmon pose with a crashed "Rum Runner" B-25 in Liuzhou June 1944. William "Wild Bill" Gornick completed his required 200 combat flying hours on "Rum Runner" as it crash landed following a mission against Tien Ho airbase. Bill assisted the maintenance personnel with salvaging all the useable parts they could until he left for the...

Ringer Squadron personnel: Lecher, Schmidt, Clark, Penny, Routon; rear; Bryan, Gornick, Gebhart, Williams, Vollmer, Arndt at Yangkai, Early 1945, with a B-25 in the background.