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Eugene Montgomery passes a .50 cal machine gun up to Lloyd Kershaw, leaning out of the "green house" at Yangkai Airbase, China, in March 1944. They were preparing "Old '59'" for the beginning of its trip back to the USA where the the war weary B-25 and its original crew, from the 491st "Ringer Squadron" would tour on a War...

The B-25H "Wabash Cannonball" with 'practice' bombs laying beneath the bomb bay. With no mission symbols or residue from the side-mounted machine guns on fuselage side this photo must have been taken soon after the aircraft was assigned to the 491st Bm Sq at Yangkai AB, China, in the spring of 1944.

FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07121500 FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE RELEASE UPON RECEIPT CLEARED GOLDBERG USFCT FOURTEENTH AIRFORCE PHOTOGRAPHER, FIRST AMERICAN TO ENTER LIUCHOW HEADQUARTERS, FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE, CHINA --- Cpl. James C. Bowermaster, of 2608, Arctic Ave., Atlantic City, New Jersey, Fourteenth Air Force photographer, was the first American soldier to enter Liuchow after the Japs evacuated the city and...

Pvt. Louie E. Mallette Jr., son of Mrs. L.E. Mallette, R.D. 2, Lucedale, Miss., explains the intricacies of a camera to a Chinese photo laboratory technician at headquarters of the Fourteenth Air Force's hard-hitting Chinese-American Composite Wing. Pvt. Mallette who has been overseas since July 23, 1944, has been assigned to the wing's photographic section as a photographer and camera...

Chinese troops look at movie camera. Image from U. S. Government official sources.

An American (astride pony) with a Chinese escort and supplies. This is may be James C. Bowermaster, Fourteenth Air Force photographer. Image from U. S. Government official sources.

491st Bomb Squadron aerial bombing on small Chinese town during WWII.

Allied bombing of railway in Yunnan or Indochina during WWII.

American and Chinese soldiers pose on the trunk of a large tree during a friendly day outing, mostly likely in Yunnan. During WWII.