MIA

A wonderful image from the Walter S. Polchlopek collection--a local crowd, probably in the county seat not far from Yangkai (Yangjie) air base in Yunnan province, China, enjoying the entertainment of inscrutable foreigners doing funny things in public, that is, they are enjoying the public goofing around by the photographer who is standing raised above the crowd, maybe simply on...

On May 20, 1944 the B-24 bomber 'Puck' took off on a sea sweep mission under leadership of the lanky pilot, Donald Richardson. The plane (#42-73317) and crew disappeared. The crew were: 1st Lt. Donald G. Richardson, Pilot 1st Lt. Frank L. Munson, Co-pilot 1st Lt. James P. ‘Jim' Gilbert, Navigator 1st Lt. Linus J. Austin, Bombardier TSgt. Cecil L...

A couple with their young baby boy, probably at Yangkai (Yangjie), in Yunnan province.

An image from the Walter S. Polchlopek collection--A man directs traffic in India (top), and a poor elderly woman sits in China. Walter S. Polchlopek, Corporal, was lost on May 20, 1944, over the sea near the south east coast of China, after a B-24 mission to strike Japanese shipping.

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...

Local people in the Yangkai, Yunnan province, area. In the bottom image, Walter and another US serviceman can just be made out in back of the men who have risen from their meal in order to take the picture.

T/Sgt. Harold D. Robertson (inset in image), ASN 17052777, disappeared during an L-5 flight on 7 May 1944. (Also in the image is Rex Davis, and Floyd Whitney; image taken at Desert Army Air Base, California, summer 1943. Image provided by 5th Liaison Squadron Flight Line Chief R. J. Koppel.) Entered military service from Clay County, Arkansas. Admitted to hospital...

'Lt. Harold Ellis Greenberg, India China Wing ATC, who was tragically lost on 20 December 1943, with his cousin Martin during WWII.See more on Harold E. Greenberg.--------------Do have more information regarding this item? Please contact pat@rshonor.org, or us the \'Provide Info\' function below to help us preserve this CBI history!'

Another area where Lt. Garner might rest. The other area is behind the brick wall on the left of the basketball court.

John E. Disney, was lost on a flight on February 21, 1945, Shanxi province, China. He was a member of 311th Fighter Group, 528th Fighter Squadron. His family has never forgotten him and has gone to extraordinary lengths to find him and bring him home. We hope to have this story here. Click here for the mission report listing John...