B-25 Mitchell

Mike, Jim, Frank Bates, Chaukulia, India, 1943. 491st Bombardment Squadron. [On copy mailed home from China in 1944] Mike & Jimmie Lane are long hone home. That's Carmen there. I hear the old gal is still going strong in India. The picture is over a year old, back in the good old days.

Jim, Frank Bates, Alex, Jim, 1943, in the shade under a B-25. Note large bombs on ground near them.

81's revet, Chaukulia, India, 1943. Don Chisholm, Jim Lane, Mike Zamenski.

Swinging 59 gear, about June 1943, Chaukulia, India. Dick Hoffman, Johnnie Burns, Pappy (Olin A.) Knowles, Karl Hammett, John Damanick[?], Farrin (?) in cockpit.

Personnel of 491 Bombardment Group about June 1943, Chaukulia, India. Notice the open engine cowling. During WWII.

Indian soldiers guard B-25 Mitchell bomber. Probably India, 1942 or 1943.

Standing in front of B-25 #448 of the Ringer Squadron. China, July 1944. Earl E. Tweady, Donald H. Hunter, Robert Irwin, Francis E. Strohm, Shields, Kaysig (?), Bajokian, Beausoleil, rear left.

A B-25 bomber, tail #449, of the 491st Bombardment Squadron in flight on a mission.

Frank Willard Bates with B-25 #448, at Yangkai, about June 1944. During WWII.

“This is a B-25 C/F/G I worked on in 2 years in India & China.The plane was in Alameda, CA helping to celebrate Navy/Fleet Week in Oct. 1995" --Frank Willard Bates, Sr. Frank W. Bates was a member of 491st Bomb Squadron, and served in the CBI during WWII. Assigned to 491st on December 1, 1942 as an Aircraft Maintenance...