B-25 Mitchell

"My Dad, 2nd Lt. Pilot Cleland E. Wilmore, stateside before going to China."

'Dad saved things and we found this "China Lantern", from August 1945, in his old suitcase, he saved some things from China, including his FORM-5 papers still in the original folder which has the missions he flew the B-25 in China.'

Captain Wilson Porch: Shamshernagar Air Base, India, May 1945 - "My Jeep and I" Image provided by Frank Cabral.

First Lt. Richard P. Kendall, pilot, leans out window of a 491st Bomb Squadron's B-25D aircraft in a revetment at Yang Chiseh Airfield, Yangkai, Yunnan Province, China. This plane has been modified with the twin .50 caliber machine gun side packs on lower fuselage side. Another would be on the opposite, starboard, side of the plane.

B-25s on the ground at Yangkai base, Yunnan province, China.

A B-25 of the Ringer Squadron flying in the CBI.

Robert Fox holds a heavy machine gun in front of a B-25 of the Ringer Squadron.

An American B-25 Mitchell parked in the CBI.

Sgt. Andrew R. Allegretto chats with Chinese airmen, with a B-25 in the background. Sgt. Allegretto received the Air Medal for flying on a hazardous mission as part of the "Spray and Pray Squadron," part of CACW. Andrew Ralph Allegretto in CBI arrived aboard MISSION BAY. He volunteered for some of the squadron’s most perilous missions. ALLEGRETTO, Andrew Ralph ("Swifty"...

An aerial photograph of B-25 bombers during battle in the CBI, flying over Tengchong, near the China-Burma border. During WWII.