L-5

Rescuing the American pilot of an L-5 spotter plane after it crashed into a tree-top, during WWII in the CBI.

A small aircraft, a Stinson L-5 Sentinel, tail number #416889, flipped over after a tornado on the flight line at Shamsernasar, Assam. A C-64, tail number #35302, is tipped into a ditch behind it. (Thanks to jbarbaud for additional information!) From the collection of David Firman, 61st Air Service Group.

L-5s lined up in rows in India.

FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-E FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT CHINESE HELP REPAIR LIUCHOW AIRSTRIP FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, IN CHINA-- When the Japanese left the former Fourteenth Air Force Base at Liuchow, they left it heavily mined and pockmarked with bomb craters. Workers set out to repair the damage, while engineers of the...

A B-25 on the left. Spotter plane (probably an L-5) and YR-4B helicopter on the right.

A pair of Stinson L-5's at a base in China, possibly Yangkai. Notice the man in the background starting the plane, and the simplified control tower.