CACW 中美联合大队

An American B-25D bomber flies at minimum altitude, probably during training/practice of 'low-level attack techniques.' Note the triangular peak just in front of the aircraft. This is probably piled up dirt and sand bags, used as the 'target' to learn and practice, especially for 'skip bombing'. See related image here. B-25 pilots of the Tenth Air Force (341st Bomb Group)...

Colonel T. Alan Bennett CO of "Al's Assassins", as his pilots have dubbed his fighter group, congratulates his Vice Commander, Major C. H. Yuan who escaped from the Japanese. His altered ear and neck scars are visible but the cloth is not a bandage but one of the silk scarfs made from salvaged parachute, worn by many fliers. Both are...

Page two of a letter from Chennault to Morse talking about the establishment of the CACW. From the U.S. Government sources.

Page one of a letter from Chennault to Morse talking about the establishment of the CACW. From the U.S. Government sources.

At an advanced air base, China--Chinese and American fighter pilots of the Fourteenth Air Force's hard-hitting China-American Composite Wing (CACW) fly wing-tip to wing-tip in China where they are daily coordinating their efforts with Chinese ground troops to drive the Japanese out of China. Here, just before setting out on a strafing mission, Captain William J. Johnson, Jr., explains a...

Pvt. Louie E. Mallette Jr., son of Mrs. L.E. Mallette, R.D. 2, Lucedale, Miss., explains the intricacies of a camera to a Chinese photo laboratory technician at headquarters of the Fourteenth Air Force's hard-hitting Chinese-American Composite Wing. Pvt. Mallette who has been overseas since July 23, 1944, has been assigned to the wing's photographic section as a photographer and camera...

Throughout the world the American soldiers' fondness for children has become well known and in China it is no exception. Scores of orphans have been adopted by men of the Major-General C. L. Chennault\'s Fourteenth Air Force. here Staff Sergeant Elwood Clark of 2922 Coleman Ave., Corpus Christi, Texas, is shown holding Marie Liu, 6-year old girl who was found...

AN ADVANCE AIR BASE, CHINA--First Lt. James H. Corbitt, 23-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Corbitt, 231 Montgomery St., Troy, Alabama, has arrived in the China Theater and has been assigned to the Fourteenth Air Force's hard-hitting Chinese-American Composite Wing. Lt. Corbitt, who wife, Mrs. Yvonne H. Corbitt, and one-year-old son, Russell, reside at Brewton (PO Box 188) Ala...

Chinese and American officers prepare for a mission on a B-25J at an unidentified base. Their Squadron (unknown) is part of the 1st Bombardment Group, Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW). Image from U. S. Government official sources.

"Red Cross Girls" in China during WWII. Peg Pagenkopf and Mimi Buecher distribute bingo prizes to to S/Sgt. H. D. Frye, S/Sgt. Jos H. Cortner, Tsong Tsen Kwo, and Orville D. Benson.