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The "Burma Queen" in China during WWII. A Chinese guard keeps post in the merciful shade of the wing and a crew arms bombs on the ground not far from him. The crew of B-24J serial #42-73253, of the 425th Squadron, got lost in weather during return from bombing the city of Changsha on 22 July, 1944. When fuel ran...

Missions Outreaches Amid the Battles Chaplain Mengel lead his men to participate in outreach to the wartorn and impoverished Chinese countryside. These photos from Chaplain Mengel's private collection, show him with General Chennault, giving out donations from the US airmen in Yunnan province. A collection had been taken to help rebuild bombed villages. They also visited mission schools, and assisted...

B-25 Mitchell in Yunnan, China, during WWII, with a row of bombs laid out on the ground behind, and bomb bay doors open.

The photographer and collector (name unknown) of this collection, with some large bombs and a dog, most likely around the Luliang air base area. A tent camp is in the far background.

In these three images, we see a train being attacked--strafed by machine gun--in either SW China, Indochina, or the China-Burma area. Interestingly, the train is in the midst of an area of trees along the track, and seems to be stopped there (notice it has note moved between photos), possibly as an attempt at camouflage. As the war progressed, American...

A town and dock area is bombed along a river, probably in SW China, Indochina, or the China-Burma border region. During WWII.

B-25 Mitchells fly away from a recently bombed town, with a confluence of road and railway bridges right in the smoking bombed area. Probably in SW China, Indochina, or the China-Burma border region. During WWII.

Rural landscapes as seen from a B-25 Mitchell, in SW China, or Indochina, or the China-Burma border area. Karst mountains can be seen clearly in the lower image.

Smoke rises from probable American air attacks on Japanese ground troops, probably in Guangxi province, probably during the Japanese Ichigo campaign of 1944.

In these three images, we see a small town in Guangxi Province, SW China, being bombed by American B-25 bombers. In the succession of images we see the progress of the bombing. In the first image, just as the first bombs hit, one can see a few trucks of a Japanese convoy sparsely about the town, and a few people...