23rd Fighter Group

Flyers with a P-40 in the CBI. The plane shows the emblem of the "CHINA'S BLITZER" 23rd Fighter Group. "Standing, left-to-right, toward wing of P-40 fighter then on the engine cowl toward the propeller: Hall, Haynes, Rogers, Anderson, Bavuso, Machin, Nollmeyer CO, Davis, Stiles, Norton, Weller, Marshall, Baglio, Headly, Deveer, Macdonald. 26-87A.

Flyers with a P-40 in the CBI. The plane shows the emblem of the "CHINA'S BLITZER" 23rd Fighter Group.

Lt. Robert "Hoyle" Upchurch, 74th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group, missing October 6, 1944. (Photo courtesy of LLewis.)

Images of escorting P-40 Warhawks with a painted shark's mouth somewhere over southern China, Indochina, or Burma during WWII, as taken from the tail gunner's window on a B-25 bomber. Close in is the P-40 nicknamed "Princess," tail number 155. Who is this man in the cockpit? This plane is likely of 75th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group.

Chinese-American mechanics work on P-40 fighter of the 76ht Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group, at Kunming, China, on November 20, 1942. These mechanics are: S/Sgt. Pak On Lee, S/Sgt. George Lunn, and S/Sgt. Phillip Pon. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Among the images collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (through reader submission), and shared with the Remembering Shared Honor project, were a series of images provided by Dorothy Yuen Leuba (seen in image above, taken during her time in China during the war). Because of her travels over an extended time in China, her photos include a sprinkling of...

GIs visiting US military graves at Kunming. In the background are markers for the deceased, including for one of 2nd Lt. George R. Barnes, #0-79770, 74th Fighter Squadron, deceased July 24, 1943 at Lingling, Hunan province. Photo from Warren C. Smith. George R. Barnes, entered the Service From: Pennsylvania, Cumberland County. "KIA"

Here is an initial file regarding 1st Lt. Nick Gazibara, pilot with the 74th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group, in China, killed in 1945 in China. Below is a short narrative kindly provided to our project by his younger brother Don in 2008: Nick Gazibara DOB 12/18/1922, Export, PA Father Robert (Bozo) immigrated from Yugoslavia in 1914 Mother oldest of...

Several P-51s in a row after snowfall at a base in the CBI during WWII, the closest with tail #410788.