Bates

Yangkai, China, Early 1945. Front ?Lecher, Schmidt, Clark, Penny, Routon. Rear ?Bryan, Gornick, Gebhardt, Williams, Vollmer, Arndt.

At the line mess hall, Yangkai 1944. Frank Bates, Leo Lacher, Lee & his brother. See related image here.

At the hardware stand, GI Fred Nash, with appreciative local people. Yangkai Village, Spring 1945.

Making cornmeal or rice flour Probably Yangkai Village, Spring 1945. Clayton E. Nash.

All of the 491st Bomb Squadron maintenance personnel at Yangkai AB, China, in early 1944, shortly after they had transferred from Chakulia, India. Frank bates notes.. McArdle hadn't gone home. Rear, 5th from left 'Frank Bates'. In the middle of the front row, with his trademark pipe in his mouth, is Capt William Devries. He was the Engineering Officer from...

Early in the morning on a spring day in 1945, 491st Bombardment Squadron personnel (mechanics- Schumaier, Scott; armorer- ?) prepare a B-25D, #42, for a mission. The top of the fuel truck is in the foreground of the revetment at Yangkai AB. When the aircraft were dispatched to 'forward operation' bases they were often fueled with hand pumps from 50-gallon...

Barracks area in Yangkai, Spring 1945. Hunter Toms, Joe Burns, Bill Gornick, Syd Nyreen.

Parachute men at the front of a B-25. Yangkai, Spring 1945. Ted & Estes (Sgt. Robert E.; Transportation Section). Image is looking west across field, the hills in the background, as of February 2016, can be seen here.

GIs and local farmer with ox cart at barracks area in Yangkai, Spring 1945. Unknown, Bill Bryan, Richard Hill, Clayton E. "Fred" Nash, Aspinwall, Gilliland, Alexander, Chisholm.

Nash, Nick Arico, and John Coffey, and the snake, at Luichow, Oct 1944.