Chabua

"Jing-Bow" air warning shack in Chabua, 1942. In the CBI during WWII. Photo from Jim Fouch.

Construction at Chabua airfield during WWII. Photo The Smithsonian Institute via O. H. Hensley.

'Four and final page of Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) for Warren J. Christensen, a P-40 pilot with the 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron who disappeared on a flight from India to China on June 12, 1944.(Courtesy of Chris Davis)For more about Warren J. Christensen, please click here --------------Do have more information regarding this item? Please contact pat@rshonor.org, or us the...

'First page of Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) for Warren J. Christensen, a P-40 pilot with the 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron who disappeared on a flight from India to China on June 12, 1944.(Courtesy of Chris Davis)For more about Warren J. Christensen, please click here --------------Do have more information regarding this item? Please contact pat@rshonor.org, or us the \'Provide Info\'...

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Control towers, top tower at Chabua, India, during WWII.

Richard "Dick" Harris in service in Lewiston, Idaho, in 1942. Hand colored image. From February to October 1945, Richard Daniel Harris flew C-46 military transport aircraft between India and China through the Himalayas in support of the war effort against Japan, carrying every kind of material or personnel over "the Hump." Only a young man only in his early twenties...

1st Lt. Irving Woodrow DeGon was killed on January 20, 1944, Chabua, India, in a plane crash while piloting a C-46 (#741) during a take off from an airfield, along with crew members named Smith, Shea, and Gray. He was starting his 8th month as a transport pilot in the India-China Wing Army Transportation Corps (ICWATC), and had made 30...

"Hurry up and wait to go home": GIs at a military base in the CBI lined up waiting to return to the US after the war. Image provided by Michael J. O'Brien.