B-24

' The photographer and collector of the images in the Roubinek Collection in Yunnan province, China, during WWII. We know very little about this CBI veteran or the background of these images. See an overview here. An image from the Roubinek Collection, showing planes and people connected to an American air base in WWII in Yunnan province, China, most likely...

Three American GIs sitting on a discarded latrine box in front of wrecked American warplanes (including a B-24) in a boneyard at the base. An aircraft tail #349752 is in the background. Note men walking on wing of aircraft in background, undoubtedly engaged in salvage on the wing. In Yunnan, China, during WWII.

A C-54, tail #272419. At an American air base in WWII in Yunnan province, China, most likely around the Luliang air base area.

This very tired and very worn B-24D bomber is probably at the airfield at Luliang, China. It has been modified, with nose, dorsal, ventral and tail gun turrets removed and those positions capped, similar to a C-87 Liberator Express or C-109 tanker version which had 6 additional fuel tanks carrying 2,400 gallons of fuel. This is believed to be serial...

A L-5 Stinson, tail number #298836, at an American base. C-46s, B-24s, and P-51s is various states of disassembly can be seen in the background. Yunnan province, China, during WWII.

An image from the Roubinek Collection, showing a wrecked and broken-backed B-24 bomber in a boneyard near the base. in Yunnan province, China, most likely around the Luliang air base area.

A bone yard of wrecked American military aircraft during WWII at Luliang, Yunnan province, China, looking east. In this image are easily recognized C-46 and B-24 air frames.

Nose art showing a women riding a falling bomb. During WWII, this B-24L serial 44-41431 was named "BOMBS AWAY". The plane flew missions in early 1945 assigned to 373rd Bomb Squadron, 308th Bomb Group, with the Fourteenth Air Force in China. After 373 BS operated from Luliang, China from 14 Sep 1944 until it transferred to Yontan, Okinawa 21 July...

Nose art of a crashed B-24 bomber, B-24J-10 bomber, serial #42-51850, named "Lady Luck II" flew missions over Burma while assigned to 436 Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, Tenth Air Force. The plane was transferred to Air Transport command, converted to a C-109 aerial tanker. It suffered severe damage in a landing accident at Luliang, China on 18 Nov 1944...

Nose art of crashed B-24J bomber (serial #42-51850) named "Lady Luck II", in China in WWII. Additional information: Sgt Elmer Bukey, 396th Air Service Squadron, noted on a photo of the "Lady Luck II" that it was being salvaged at Ankang, China.