air supply & transport

GIs ready with bags to drop from transport plane to allies below, likely over Burma. During WWII.

Allied airdrop on a hillside in SW China (or Burma), during WWII. Image provided by Emery and Beth Vrana. 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 Emery and Beth Vrana. Images include India, Burma, and China.

C-46 doing airdrop training in the CBI during WWII. 4th C.C. Group , 15th C.C. Squadron.

Parachute airdrop of supplies to Allied forces in Burma or SW China. In the CBI during WWII.

Aerial supply drop in China during WWII. 16th Combat Camera Unit photo.

An airdrop of rice supplies near the Salween River by 14th Air Force crew, from 7500 feet elevation. Twelve 100-lb bags are readied, then pushed out. Kicker on floor is Cpl. Albert A. Baneroft, and on the background Cpl. Milton Chapman, foreground is Pvt. Robert Minnis, and pushing out rice is T/Sgt. Clifford Spiegelbert.

Allied air drop in Sweli Valley, China, during WWII.

Men push woven baskets, with attached parachutes, out of a cargo plane mid air as part of an air drop in the CBI. Photo from Glenn Hensley.