Ringer Squadron

Pete Bertani, Peterson, Frank Bates, unknown, posing before a B-25 Mitchell in a revetment in China, likely Yangkai.

Nose art detail on Wabash Cannonball. Photo annotation: "1007 Wabash Cannonball, Kealy 25, Yangkai, 1945."

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

American flyers and mechanics, ground support, etc. gather for a group photo before a Ringer Squadron B-25 Mitchell. Yangkai, May or June 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.

S/Sgt Wilbert 'Willie' Beausoliel, aircraft mechanic with the 491st Bombardment Squadron, Yangkai, posing with B-25 tail #448 about June 1944. (Info courtesy Tony Strotman)

Standing in front of B-25 #448 of the Ringer Squadron. China, July 1944. Earl E. Tweady, Donald H. Hunter, Robert Irwin, Francis E. Strohm, Shields, Kaysig (?), Bajokian, Beausoleil, rear left.

A B-25 bomber, tail #449, of the 491st Bombardment Squadron in flight on a mission.