Bailey

Alice Chong pressed into public relations duty at Kunming during the winter of 1943-44. When a visiting troupe of USO entertainers, Hollywood actors, visited the 14th U.S. Army Air Force base, Alice was detailed to lead them around, answer their questions, translate for them, and in general make them feel at home. Of the four Hollywood actors at center, Edmund...

Alice Chong and Captain Addison Bailey dance while another GI plays guitar. Captain Addison Bailey was Alice's immediate supervisor. He was a Jazz pianist in New York City before the war, and went back to this after the war as well. The guitar player (name currently unknown) in Bailey’s 14th Air Force band was one of the original “Hillbilly Musicians”...

Alice Chong on the Kunming air strip posing before a C-54 with some of her 14th U.S.A.A.F buddies in 1944. Note the blood chit prominently-displayed inside the flying jacket of the Colonel Pilot at center rear. Captain Addison Bailey (in dark shirt) to Alice’s immediate right-all others unidentified. (Images and information primarily courtesy of Brian Dillon.)

These images seem to be of a "Special Service Show in Kunming, China, Xmas 1944."

Various scenes from a variety show to entertain the troops in the CBI during WWII. This particular images seems to be of a "Special Service Show in Kunming, China, Xmas 1944," and may have originally belonged to Addie Bailey.

These images seem to be of a "Special Service Show in Kunming, China, Xmas 1944." "Addie Bailey in front." This particular images seems to be of a "Special Service Show in Kunming, China, Xmas 1944," and may have originally belonged to Addie Bailey.

Ms. Leuba and charming friends, Elizabeth May and Ursid May, taken at Christmas 1944, or possible in January 1945. CASC. Photo provided by Dorothy Yuen Leuba. 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 Dorothy Yuen Leuba. Because of her...

A man poses before the F-5 (a variant of the P-38) 'Mary Ann' piloted by Major H. T. Bailey, who had a crew chief "Snaffy". Serial #43-26291.