Cline

Funeral of 16th CCU cameraman Richard Dille “Dick” Arbogast in Kunming on June 2, 1944. The full crew died when their B-24 crashed into a mountain between Lingling and Kweilin in August of 1944. (It is possible most of the flag-draped boxes shown in the images here are from this same crash.) Sgt. Dick Arbogast, whom Hal Geer called "my...

Left to right: 1st lt. Lloyd Wiler, sound man who worked at RKO Pictures before the war. Capt. Wilfred Cline, CO of the 16th Combat Camera Unit. He was a first cameraman in the studios who specialized in Technicolor films. He made numerous Fitzgerald Travel logs. S/sgt Anthony DeLuceney at camera. The camera is a modified Bell & Howell 35mm...

Major Wilfrid M. Cline, commander of 16th Combat Camera Unit from May 1943 to February 1945, at the driver's seat of a jeep at an American base in China during WWII. Two others unknown. Wilfrid M. Cline had a significant Hollywood career both before and after the war.