Thank you for your patience as we rebuild our website! 2020-2024

Bates

Chinese mess personnel at Yangkai: Lee & brother at the line mess, Yangkai, China July 1944. See related image here.
GIs play volleyball. in Yangkai, China, 1944. Art, Gross, Trombley, Kainne [Keiser?], Elmer Moore, Harry Leech, Lacher [or Lecher?], Alelunas, Doc Townsend.
A close-up of the boy in the paddy at the foot of our area, Yangkai, China 1944.
"Rice paddy at the foot of the hill from our barracks area, Yangkai, China 1944."
B-25, tail number 448, on a mission, 1944.
S/Sgt Wilbert 'Willie' Beausoliel, aircraft mechanic with the 491st Bombardment Squadron, Yangkai, posing with B-25 tail #448 about June 1944. (Info courtesy Tony Strotman)
Chinese soldier and American engineer stand before the new 25, #448, Yangkai, May 1944. Unknown, Frank Bates. From the collection of Frank Bates.
B-25 and crew at Yangkai, late 1944? Looks like 436 (same as large group picture) just coming in new to the squadron. The big guy kneeling (in silhouette) with the cap brim up is A.B. Christensen.
Ringer Squadron personnel: Lecher, Schmidt, Clark, Penny, Routon; rear; Bryan, Gornick, Gebhart, Williams, Vollmer, Arndt at Yangkai, Early 1945, with a B-25 in the background.