308th Bombardment Group

Missions Outreaches Amid the Battles Chaplain Mengel lead his men to participate in outreach to the wartorn and impoverished Chinese countryside. These photos from Chaplain Mengel's private collection, show him he and the men visiting mission schools, interacting with the children and teachers, and assisting blind children's homes. The US airmen also gave out collected donations to help bombed out...

Flying into Battle to Pray His Men Home! Pictured above in western Yunnan province, China, with Colonel William F. "Frank" Grubb, his war-time best friend, Chaplain Mengel went 'above-and-beyond the call of duty' by flying into battle with his men. Colonel Grubb recounted stories of how Chaplain Mengel rode in his co-pilot seat during bombing runs to pray until they...

Missions Outreaches Amid the Battles Chaplain Mengel lead his men to participate in outreach to the wartorn and impoverished Chinese countryside. These photos from Chaplain Mengel's private collection, show him he and the men visiting mission schools, interacting with the children and teachers, and assisting blind children's homes. The US airmen also gave out collected donations to help bombed out...

Missions Outreaches Amid the Battles Chaplain Mengel lead his men to participate in outreach to the wartorn and impoverished Chinese countryside. These photos from Chaplain Mengel's private collection, show him with General Chennault, giving out donations from the US airmen in Yunnan province. A collection had been taken to help rebuild bombed villages. They also visited mission schools, and assisted...

Missions Outreaches Amid the Battles Chaplain Mengel lead his men to participate in outreach to the wartorn and impoverished Chinese countryside. These photos from Chaplain Mengel's private collection, show him he and the men visiting mission schools, interacting with the children and teachers, and assisting blind children's homes. The US airmen also gave out collected donations to help bombed out...

Chaplain Dwayne H. Mengel conducts a temporary military burial in Yunnan, China. The 308th took heavy casualties, and one of the Chaplain's duties included burying recovered bodies in local graves until they could be repatriated after the war.

(Above: A "Flying Tigers" Reunion: Chaplain Mengel is pictured second from the right in this postwar reunion photo.) LT. COLONEL WW 2, CBI THEATRE Chaplain Dwayne Halley Mengel "Flying Tiger," 308th Bomb Group, 14th Air Force Chaplain Dwayne H. Mengel was a native of Gibsonburg, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Ohio Northern University, and Master of...

Crashed American B-24 in the boneyard at the American airbase at Luliang--many of these were used as salvage for spare and repair parts for planes that were still flying. This was B-24L- 1-CO, #44-41442, 'Red Ass,' assigned to the 373rd Bomb Squadron of the 308th Bm Grp when it was transferred to Fourteenth AF Air Service Group on 8 Apr...

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...

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...