B-24

B-24 "Tough Titti" and Crew during WWII (likely inside a revetment in SW China): L to R standing: LT/ Kaestner; Pilot LT/ Apsega; Co-pilot LT/ Crawford; Navigator Lt/ Adelson; bombardier Sitting L to R - Sergeants: Mann; Gunner Young; Gunner Smith; Engineer Jones; asst. Engineer Luebers; radio Operator Bartell, Donald J.; Armorer Gunner (Thanks A. Cope!)

Canadian flyer Gérard Labrie with American B-24 bomber "80 Days" during WWII. Note his heavy clothing and parachute. In the background, the fuselage skid (tail-bumper) is lowered and is bracing up the tail on top of a small stand.

Three flyers pose with B-24 in Burma during 1943. "Hot Shot CHARLIE," "SNARE," and "Tenny-Lee." Left to right: Bud Goodman (Chicago), Ned Levey, Ray Henderson (North Carolina).

B-24s bombing Sinshih, an important Japanese supply in the Hunan campaign of the time. 8.6.1944. With P-51 and P-40 fighter escorts. Consolidated B-24J-35-CO Liberator "Krachy Kourier" (308th BG 425th BS; #42-73318). Consolidated B-24J-25-CO Liberator "Burma Queen" (308th BG 425th BS; #42-73253). In China, on one mission a bomber crew would "borrow" "Burma Queen" for a mission and were eventually forced...

American flyers with the B-24 "Burma Queen," serial #42-73253, of the 425th Squadron, almost certainly in China. During WWII. Unknown exactly who they are, but they might be pilot Glenn Lowe, copilot Joel Grayson, and others who usually flew the plane. In China, on one mission another crew would "borrow" this B-24 for a mission and were eventually forced to...

Radio operation T/Sgt. Boleslaw A. Skurnowicz as member of crew of B-24 during training stateside. Boleslaw A. "Benny" Skurnowicz was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania in 1921. He was one of six children of Polish immigrant parents. Polish was spoken in the home and Benny learned to speak English in elementary school. His father, a coal miner, died from Miner’s Asthma...

The crew of a B-24 during training stateside. Top row, left to right: 2nd Lt. William Staskiewicz (bombardier) 2nd Lt. William U. DuMond (navigator) 2nd Lt. John P. Burkett (pilot) 2nd Lt. Wallace I. Ackerman (copilot) Top row, left to right: Cpl. Norman P. Reuter (asst. radio op) S/Sgt. Claude L. Crosby (ass't. engineer) S/Sgt. Herbert W. Robbs (engineer) Cpl...

B-24s in flight near Kunming, China, during WWII, including the B-24 "Ubangi Bag II," #241168.

B-24 "BUZZ-Z BUGGY," in the CBI during WWII. "B-24s in my squadron."

B-24 "GEORGIA PEACH," in the CBI during WWII. "B-24s in my squadron."