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The “Remembering Shared Honor” (RSH) project sets out to collect and preserve oral histories related to Chinese and American cooperation during the Second World War in the China-Burma-India(CBI) theater of war.
This historical archive has a total of 7,073 entries.
"This is another of the eight P-40's that were built from the salvage yard at Kwelin,China.The guys that are running an air speed indicator test are Art Rodriguez...Major Matthews...?...Joe Cooper. Joe was the crew chief on this project." Notation of the nose of the plane seems to say "DEVIL'S KID" and "Mikado Raider II."
"This is a picture of General 'Casey' Vincent's plane The Silver Slipper. The 396th prepared this plane for the General at Kwelin, China. Sgt. Joe Cooper of the 396th was crew chief of the plane. The two guys in the picture are Taylor on the left and Cooper on the right. Taylor was the radio operator on the plane."
GIs Derby, Daggett, Trombley, unknown, Charlie Zangle, Wayne E. Cooper, Peter J. Bertani, Aug. 5, 1944. Probably at Yangkai air base. See related image here.
