DeLuceney

Funeral of 16th CCU cameraman Richard Dille “Dick” Arbogast in Kunming on June 2, 1944. The full crew died when their B-24 crashed into a mountain between Lingling and Kweilin in August of 1944. (It is possible most of the flag-draped boxes shown in the images here are from this same crash.) Sgt. Dick Arbogast, whom Hal Geer called "my...

Left to right: 1st lt. Lloyd Wiler, sound man who worked at RKO Pictures before the war. Capt. Wilfred Cline, CO of the 16th Combat Camera Unit. He was a first cameraman in the studios who specialized in Technicolor films. He made numerous Fitzgerald Travel logs. S/sgt Anthony DeLuceney at camera. The camera is a modified Bell & Howell 35mm...

S/Sgt Anthony DeLuceney operating the camera, 1st Lt Lloyd D. Wiler, sound man, in front of the camera. The case in front of Wiler contains the amplifier for the sound recorder in the camera (it was a variable area sound system.) Capt Howard Pennebaker in back of the camera. Pennebaker was originally the Unit Adjutant until spring of 45, then...

16th Combat Camera Unit group photo, taken in Kunming, China, during WWII. More personnel names can be found at this external site.