Little Flower

The B-24 "Little Flower" in the CBI during WWII. Photo from Emery and Beth Vrana. Among the images collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (through reader submission), and shared with the Remembering Shared Honor project, were a series of images provided by Emery and Beth Vrana. Images include India, Burma, and China.

GI with nose-art painted nose cowling of a P-40 fighter in the CBI during WWII--from P-40K "Little Flower" from the 25th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, flown by Ray Kaiser. (Thanks for additional info from JBarbaud).

A parachute forms a backdrop in this Chapel in Kunming in 1945. Father Charles F. Meeus celebrates mass. The Father's pulpit is the cowling for the P-40K "Little Flower" flown by Ray Kaiser (25th FS). "Little Flower" was St Therese from Lisieux, France. (Thanks JBarbaud) Notice the corrugated metal making up the lower area of the alter, also likely parts...