Yangkai (Yangjie) 羊街

Lt John R. Herdic 1st Lt John R. Herdic (2nd from right) in front of a B-25 at Yangkai (Yangjie) airbase. Lt Herdic was KIA at Duong Dao, Indochina while bombing a railroad bridge on January 19, 1945. See the story about Lt Herdic here.

Several P-40 fighters pass over the runway and begin a "break out" to land at Yangkai, Yunnan province. American B-25H bomber are visible in the foreground of this picture taken in the CBI. See related image here.

A wonderful image from the Walter S. Polchlopek collection--a local crowd, probably in the county seat not far from Yangkai (Yangjie) air base in Yunnan province, China, enjoying the entertainment of inscrutable foreigners doing funny things in public, that is, they are enjoying the public goofing around by the photographer who is standing raised above the crowd, maybe simply on...

Top image (above) is the the village immediately adjacent to the former Yangkai airbase during our visit in February on 2016. The local people refer to the base by the name of the village, Longyuan (龙院), and not by Yangkai (or Yangjie in standard Mandarin; 羊街), which is a larger village some distance away. This village was heavily influenced by...

A woman working with a baby on her back on the runway at Yangkai, 1945. Bienaime.

'Dad saved things and we found this "China Lantern", from August 1945, in his old suitcase, he saved some things from China, including his FORM-5 papers still in the original folder which has the missions he flew the B-25 in China.'

An American explores a village, probably at Yangkai, during WWII.

Captain George Williams, MIA. On March 5, 1944, three B-25s of the 491st Bombardment Squadron (341st Bombardment Group) were supported by five B-25s of the 22nd Bomb Squadron. The formation was led by Captain George Williams (491st) in an attack on Chiang Mai, Airdrome, Thailand. One aircraft dropped bombs on the barracks area northeast of the runway, starting two fires...

1st Lt. John P. Toler, MIA. On March 5, 1944, three B-25s of the 491st Bombardment Squadron (341st Bombardment Group) were supported by five B-25s of the 22nd Bomb Squadron. The formation was led by Captain George Williams (491st) in an attack on Chiang Mai, Airdrome, Thailand. One aircraft dropped bombs on the barracks area northeast of the runway, starting...

S/Sgt Harry A. Mozian, MIA. On March 5, 1944, three B-25s of the 491st Bombardment Squadron (341st Bombardment Group) were supported by five B-25s of the 22nd Bomb Squadron. The formation was led by Captain George Williams (491st) in an attack on Chiang Mai, Airdrome, Thailand. One aircraft dropped bombs on the barracks area northeast of the runway, starting two...