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B-24 "Tough Titti" and Crew during WWII (likely inside a revetment in SW China): L to R standing: LT/ Kaestner; Pilot LT/ Apsega; Co-pilot LT/ Crawford; Navigator Lt/ Adelson; bombardier Sitting L to R - Sergeants: Mann; Gunner Young; Gunner Smith; Engineer Jones; asst. Engineer Luebers; radio Operator Bartell, Donald J.; Armorer Gunner (Thanks A. Cope!)
Gun turret maintenance for F-7/B-24, October 1, 1944. Kermit Smith and Hummel. 24th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Photo Reconnaissance Group, 10th Air Force.
24th Mapping Squadron C.O. and staff pose for a group shot. (December 1944-May 1945.) Rear: Lt. Key, Capt. Smith, Lt. Walters, Capt. Rebers, Capt. Geiger, Lt. Kunn, Lt. Maddox. Front: Capt. Hiendell, Major Hubers, Lt. Col. King, Capt. Bagshaw. Image originally from Charles A. Runyon.
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...
Memorial poem and scripture from Clemson Memorial Service, December 7, 1944, where Lt. White and others were remembered. (Courtesy of Clemson University TigerPrints.) We hope to create here the story of William H. C. White, 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, who was killed on December 30, 1943 while on a bombing run on the Yangtze river. We plan to...
"Lynn, Great Falls, Montana, at the controls. Eugene Bowers, Deepwater, New Jersey, and Lou Smith, of Tennessee (left to right). Bowers used to do a back dive off the barge loaded with deck cargo, swim under the 110' barge and 40-plus foot catamaran, while we were underway, and catch a trailing lifeline with preserver attached. Hooghly River (Howrah bridge in...
Machine guns fixed to a mount in the CBI during WWII. Photo from Donovan Smith.