Nelson

Shake charmer in India during WWII. Photo from Kenney Nelson.

After dinner beer party in mess hall of OSS Det. 101, Kunming, China, December 25th, 1944. Photo from Robert E. Walters.

Christmas day, 1994, at Luliang, China. Pilot Lt. Harry Nelson had just told Engineer Wayne Blackburn and Radio Operator Dale Strohbehn (right) they were to fly gasoline to Suichuan (Suischwan) that day. Photo taken at Enlisted Men’s quarters, Luliang. Photo from Dale Strohbehn.

Christmas 1944 in one of the 491st Bm Sq enlisted men's hostels at Yangkai base, Yunnan province, China. In his book "Diary of A Bomb Squadron" McKay Nelson wrote, "Christmas was celebrated quietly. A truckload of Christmas packages for the squadron came in, early in the evening. Midnight Mass had to be cancelled due to a 'Jing Bao' air raid...

Three gentlemen, Ed Nelson (Bad Axe, Mich), Sgt. Norton G. Stubblefield (Dallas Texas), and 1st Lt. Charles J. Jantzen (Seattle, Washington) with the self-propelled battery cart they have built from spare parts and salvage.

"These are some of the guys we went crying to to get some of the hard to get supplies; These were the 'Radar Riley's' of the 396th. Front: Cpl. G. Embry. Back: Sgt. Richard Hoffman, Warrant Officer Walter H. Nelson, Sgt. C.Y.Green. These guys and all the others in Tech Supply made our jobs a whole lot easier." Air Corps...

S/Sgt. Malvin L. Nelson films a newsreel short in China during WWII. Although blacked out by censors (for some reason), this should be by the 16th Combat Camera Unit.