341st Bombardment Group

A crew of the 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, stands beside their B-25 "The Saint" somewhere in China on 2 February 1943. They are: Crandall H. Hagan Clece L. Bingham Frank J. Ralph, Jr. Charles H. Patton Robert E. Johnson Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A crew of the 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, stands beside a B-25 "Tokyo Jo" somewhere in China on 2 February 1943. They are: Capt. E. W. Holstrom Lt. L. J. Murphy Capt. Clayton Campbell Lt. George A. Stout T/Sgt. Douglas V. Radney S/Sgt. Robert T. Schafer Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A crew of the 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, stands beside a B-25 "Tokyo Jo" somewhere in China on 2 February 1943. They are: Capt. E. W. Holstrom Lt. L. J. Murphy Lt. Robert E. Davis Lt. Charles J. Carino T/Sgt. Adam R. Williams Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Memorial poem and scripture from Clemson Memorial Service, December 7, 1944, where Lt. White and others were remembered. (Courtesy of Clemson University TigerPrints.) We hope to create here the story of William H. C. White, 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, who was killed on December 30, 1943 while on a bombing run on the Yangtze river. We plan to...

First Lieutenant Hampden Wallace Harding, bomber pilot and holder of the Air Medal for more than 300 combat missions, was killed March 13 in fighting over Hainan Strait, China. His plane was witnessed to have been struck by tracers in the cockpit and navigation area by Japanese Zero fighters during a window of time when the bombing mission was without...

The "Skull & Wings" insignia on plane's side near the nose indicates this parked B-25J Mitchell is assigned to 490th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group. The 490th had stayed in India, attached to Tenth Air Force, when 341st BG moved from to China in January 1944. With aerial combat finished in Burma, the 490th BS (attached to 312 Fighter Wing)...

Maintenance personnel move across upper surfaces during pre-mission servicing of a B-25H 'gunship' of the 11th Bomb Squadron (not Group), 341st Bomb Group at Yang Tong Airfield, Guilin in Guangxi province, China. Circa fall of 1944.

American GIs examine small Japanese fragmentation bomb in China on November 13th, 1942. 2nd Lt. Nicholas Marich (sometimes spelled Marick) and 2nd Lt. Joseph W. Cunningham returned to American bases after having spent three days behind Japanese lines evading capture after their B-25 bomber was shot down on October 25, 1942 about 25 miles north-west of Hong Kong, China. They...

During WWII, T/Sgt. Douglas V. Radney of Mineola, Texas, poses by his turret position on top of his plane at an air base somewhere in China. January 1943. (Douglas Radney was an Engineer-Gunner; Doolittle Tokyo Raid crew #2) Mr. Radney passed away in 1994. A biography can be found here. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A crew of the 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group poses beside their North American B-25 "Obliterators Excuse Please" at an airfield somewhere in China, February 2, 1943. They are (l-r): S/Sgt Pat N. Boudreaux, Port Arthur, Texas, Radio-Gunner S/Sgt Karl H. May, Yakima, Washington, Engineer-Gunner Lt. Charles H. Dearth, Sidney, Ohio, Navigator Lt. Mason O. Brown, Calwell, Idaho, Co-Pilot...