Bates

George Butsika working under wing of B-25. Yangkai, May 1944.

Pete, Elmer, Frank Bates, and a Chinese guard pose in the revetment of B-25D, #55, 491st Bombardment Squadron, at Yangkai AB, 1944. (Info courtesy Tony Strotman)

491st Bombardment Squadron mechanics - Gibbs, Butsika, McArdle, Lacher, Pete, Beausoleil, unknown, Kealy - at Yangkai in the spring of 1944. Of special interest is the number of machine guns sticking from the nose of the "green house." The original B-25Ds had one flexible gun in the center, operated by the bombardier or navigator. Later, 'official' modifications would add two...

Elmer, Pete, Rex in B-25 of Ringer Squadron at Yangkai, 1944.

John Carberry and Claude Darni in front of B-25 and holding rifles in Yangkai, Spring 1944.

Village elders holds child in Yangkai village.

A carved wooden door panel in China. During WWII.

A carved wooden door screen in China. During WWII.

An ornate wooden surround for a doorway in China, for a building/courtyard taken over by Nationalist military or government. During WWII.

Gasing #448, Liuzhou, June 1944.