China Clipper

The B-24 "China Clipper" in the CBI, showing damage to one engine.

The B-24 "China Clipper" showing damage to engine.

The B-24 "China Clipper." Notice the damage to the #4 engine in the background.

A pre-flight briefing for American flyers in China during WWII.. The maps on the wall behind the speaker clearly show Hong Kong harbor, which the Japanese controlled. "China Clipper" (as seen on the back of the crewman's jacket and in other photos) was a B-24G assigned to 373rd Bombardment Squadron, 308th Bomb Group, late in 1943 or early 1944. The...

B-24 "China Clipper" taking off in Guangxi, China, during WWII.

Flak damage to the B-24 "China Clipper" as photographed after the fact by Hal Geer, who had also been holding a camera on the plane at that location, at the waist window, when the plane was hit in flight. The camera in his hands (and held to his face) had been destroyed by the flak, which he felt however saved...