control tower

GIs enjoy refreshments---handed out by a female Red Cross service worker---at a truck parked at the Dinjan air base control tower (62nd AACS), in 1944. 3rd Combat Cargo. Donald Thielen, Crowley, Stephanson, Henry, Gallione, Carrolson, Snyder. Photo from Donald Thielen.

A control tower at an airbase in the CBI during WWII. Photo by 4th Photo Lab. Sec., provided by Gillick.

Control tower at an American air base in CBI. Elevation 6420 feet. Gillick.

Radio in a control tower at an air base in the CBI during WWII.

Control tower at a US air base in the CBI during WWII.

Control tower at Dinjan before the fire. During WWII. Photo from Richard Radcliffe.

"The observation platform atop the control tower at liberated Hankou (Hankou) Air Base was an excellent place to pitch a pyramidal." During WWII.

Control tower (arrow, center) and enlisted men's barrack (right center) of the 1339th AAFBU at Chengkang (Chengkung), Yunnan province, China. Four B-24s are scattered around the field.

Air control tower at an American base in China during WWII.

"This is the control tower at Luliang, China. It was at the highest elevation of any base we were at in China. We were at 6000 feet and we had snow here. The only base I can remember that had snow." 6064' elevation.