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Hastings Mill (base)

"My boat #327, an MTL (Motor Tour, Launch) of the 327th Harbor Craft Company. Diesel powered-single screw. Crewed by three men. Landing at Hastings Mill where we sometimes ate and enjoyed a movie at HQ 20th Bomber Command. We usually ate and slept aboard or ate at Budge-Budge, Hastings, Barrackpore, or other exotic ports of call. I think that is...
Local women working at airfield building barracks, India, August 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. George Zdanoff, HQ CBI at Hastings Mill.
George M. Zdanoff (right) points a finger at Bob Harrington (left) at the photo lab at Hastings Mills, India, HQ during WWII.
Some of personnel of photo lab at Hastings Mills CBI HQ, drinking beer on Sept. 1: Bob Harrington (top of picture) Spence (lower right) S/Sgt. Bob Schoby (center) Dave Rosen George M. Zdanoff
T/Sgt. George M. Zdanoff along the road leading to Calcutta from Hastings Mills CBI HQ during WWII.
Drafting tables at iir engineering office, CBI HQ at Hastings Mill, Calcutta, December 2, 1944. Photo from T/Sgt. George M. Zdanoff.
Cardinal Spellman with group of GIs at Hastings Mills, India, during WWII.
Jute machines in storage at Hastings Mill, after the factory had been taken over for an Allied HQ building. During WWI, in India. August 16, 1945.
Cardinal Spellman and General Hanley chat at Hastings Mill, India, near Hooghly River, during WWII.
Headquarters of the Army Air Forces India Burma Theater & Eastern Air Command at Hastings Mills, Calcutta, during WWII. August 16, 1945.