Bates

Lengthening the E-W runway by 81 for B-29's, Chaukulia, India Dec 1943.

Jim Lane in tail gun (.50 cal.) put in B-25 #81, summer of 1943, Chaukulia, India, as a field modification (see more about this modification here). This should be B-25D-15, #41-30381, assigned to the 491BS/341BG while the unit was stationed at Chakulia. (Thanks for the research and information supplied by Yves Marino and Tony Strotman.)

Jim Lane in first 25 tail gun (.50 cal.) position put in as a field modification by Red Cummings, about August, 1943, Chaukulia, India (see more background about this modification here). This should be B-25D-15, #41-30381, assigned to the 491BS/341BG while the unit was stationed at Chakulia. (Thanks for the research and information supplied by Yves Marino and Tony Strotman.)

Changing engines in #43. either on July or October 1943. Chaukulia, India. Mit Rose, Cal Achey, Frank Bert, Pete Romanazzi, Bud Chapin, Alex.

Mike, Jim, Frank Bates, Chaukulia, India, 1943. 491st Bombardment Squadron. [On copy mailed home from China in 1944] Mike & Jimmie Lane are long hone home. That's Carmen there. I hear the old gal is still going strong in India. The picture is over a year old, back in the good old days.

Jim, Frank Bates, Alex, Jim, 1943, in the shade under a B-25. Note large bombs on ground near them.

81's revet, Chaukulia, India, 1943. Don Chisholm, Jim Lane, Mike Zamenski.

Lemmon, unknown, Red Cummings, Peterson, Gibbs. Arming 100 lb. bombs, and goofing for the camera at the same time, in a revetment. During WWII. Probably at Yangkai.

Frank Bates, Aspinwall, [A.B.] Christensen, Chaukulia, India, 1943.

Big Chris, Bud Chapin, and another GI pose with local man in Chaukulia, India 1943.