Bates

Village scene in China. Probably near Yangkai, 1945.

Chinese school room and pupils. "We couldn't get the teacher to pose." Frank Bates, Spring 1945.

Entrance to school in village 10 miles East of Yangkai, Spring 1945. Clayton E. Nash.

School courtyard from 3rd floor of pagoda. Spring 1945 on hike with Fred Nash near Yangkai, China.

School kids in the school courtyard, with Fred Nash, 10 miles east of Yangkai, Spring of 1945.

Clayton E. "Fred" Nash at town hall, 10 miles east of Yangkai, Spring 1945.

Restaurant 10 miles east of Yangkai, Spring 1945. Clayton E. "Fred" Nash, holding carbine, does not quite blend in.

There were no hangars at Yangkai AB, nor any airbase in China. This required all aircraft maintenance to be performed in the open, regardless of weather conditions. These 491st Bomb Squadron mechanics are changing engines on squadron aircraft #444, "Shark Mouth", in the spring of 1944. Frenchy Beaudetter, George Butsika, John Burns, John Aspinwall, Karl Hammett, Frank Bert, Frank Bates...

Gas detail, Yangkai 1945. Unknown, Peterson, Brillhart, unknown, Bertani, unknown, Alelunas, Schumaier,Baker, Big Chris, Myers, Kealy, Desmond, Hill, Keiser, Aspinwall, Hammett,Carter, Puloski.

Gas detail at Yangkai, 1945 Grady Dawkins, Chuck Alelunas, Meyers, Baker, Big Chris, Kealy, Schumaier,Desmond, Hill, Keiser, Aspinwall, Puloski, Hammett, Carter.