B-25 Mitchell

Major Gen. Charles B. Stone and the B-25 "Charlie's Aunt" during a visit to Yangkai on the August 29, 1945.

B-25s of the 491st headed for Burma (?) August 1944, putting a breach in a wall.

B-25 "Niagara's Belle", #439. Pete Bertani , Yangkai, 1945.

Nose art detail on Wabash Cannonball. Photo annotation: "1007 Wabash Cannonball, Kealy 25, Yangkai, 1945."

The B-25 "Reckless Virgin." Frank Bert 25, Yangkai, 1945.

B-25 "Japutie Slugger," #442. Butsika 25, Yangkai, 1945. Note burning of paint on fuselage around muzzles of the two blister-mounted .50 machine guns.

B-25 bomber "Rhode Island Red," #448. "Queen of the Squadron, agree?"

There were no hangars at Yangkai AB, nor any airbase in China. This required all aircraft maintenance to be performed in the open, regardless of weather conditions. These 491st Bomb Squadron mechanics are changing engines on squadron aircraft #444, "Shark Mouth", in the spring of 1944. Frenchy Beaudetter, George Butsika, John Burns, John Aspinwall, Karl Hammett, Frank Bert, Frank Bates...

Yangkai, China, Early 1945. Front ?Lecher, Schmidt, Clark, Penny, Routon. Rear ?Bryan, Gornick, Gebhardt, Williams, Vollmer, Arndt.

All of the 491st Bomb Squadron maintenance personnel at Yangkai AB, China, in early 1944, shortly after they had transferred from Chakulia, India. Frank bates notes.. McArdle hadn't gone home. Rear, 5th from left 'Frank Bates'. In the middle of the front row, with his trademark pipe in his mouth, is Capt William Devries. He was the Engineering Officer from...