ATC

A C-46 cargo plane of the Air Transport Command (ATC), tail number #296779, being unloaded (or loaded) in China during WWII.

James D. McDowell, 2nd Lt., ID: O-515741, Missing in Action (MIA) in the CBI during WWII. Originally from Vincennes, IN, he was lost with three other members of the crew on a flight from Jorhat, India, to Chengtu (Chengdu), China, on 15 May 1944, while flying in a C-87 (a variant of the B-24 airframe modified to carry cargo), as...

1st Lt. Frank P. Dwyer, ASN #O-1551389, MIA from the CBI. Lt. Dwyer was an ordnance officer for the eastern sector of the India-China Wing, Air Transport Command, and was lost on a flight that took off at 1:30am on June 14, 1944, for a flight from Chabua to Calcutta, India. Lt. Dwyer was one of 11 passengers (including one...

Frank B. DiPaola, Private First Class, Missing in Action (MIA) in the CBI during WWII. Originally from Hartford, CT, he was lost with three other members of the crew on a flight from Jorhat, India, to Chengtu (Chengdu), China, on 15 May 1944, while flying in a C-87 (a variant of the B-24 airframe modified to carry cargo), as part...