B-24

Flak damage to the B-24 "China Clipper" as photographed after the fact by Hal Geer, who had also been holding a camera on the plane at that location, at the waist window, when the plane was hit in flight. The camera in his hands (and held to his face) had been destroyed by the flak, which he felt however saved...

Paul J. Koerner, born around 1917, was son of Mrs. Gertrude Gibbons who resided in Hagerstown, Maryland. He had his tonsils and adenoids removed at Washington County Hospital in June 1938, at around age 21. Paul J. Koerner enlisted in the Army Air Corps on October 10, 1940, prior to the start of war, in Baltimore, Maryland. At the time...

Originally 11th Bombardment Squadron. Mother Florence Sayer, sister one year younger, Jay C. He resided in Twin Falls County, Idaho prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on December 20, 1941 in Portland, Oregon. ASN: 19005450 Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) #5346 We have learned a bit about him from kind family members, but we would...

A B-24 under maintenance by 396th Air Service Squadron during WWII, in China.

B-24 bomber down on the ground at Liuzhou or Guilin.

American soldiers sit below the B-24 bomber "Jungle Pussy" in the CBI during WWII.

"What One Small Fragmentation Bomb Could Do--This B-24 was hit with one small fragmentation bomb during one of the nightly air raids at Luichow [Liuzhou], China.This particular plane just happened to be a new B-24 that had never flown a mission. As bad as it looks it was not a total loss since the engines were removed, inspected and run-outs...

"What One Small Fragmentation Bomb Could Do--This B-24 was hit with one small fragmentation bomb during one of the nightly air raids at Luichow [Liuzhou], China.This particular plane just happened to be a new B-24 that had never flown a mission. As bad as it looks it was not a total loss since the engines were removed, inspected and run-outs...

Brothers Charles Chan and John Chan who walked from Mandalay to Liuzhou over the Hump to help in the war effort, and evade the Japanese invaders. Speaking Burmese, CHinese, and English, they worked in the "Wombat Squadron," a unit of the "Liberators in China." They stand in front of B-24 "Shootin' Star"

CBI-44-60576 30 Sept 44 Photo by Pfc J.C. Bowermaster Five Japanese bombers struck the Liuzhou airbase on the 29th of September and destroyed this B-24 and a gas dump, as well as a C-46 transport plane. During a fourty-five minute raid the was the only serious damage suffered.