air supply & transport

"A pallet, possibly mule feed, goes out the door over Burma. Look out, fellas. Don't go with it." In the CBI. Above in an image collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (usually through reader submission) over many years of publication, and provided to the Remembering Shared Honor project.

Bags are piled in cargo plane ready for aerial drop to Allied troops. Some will be dropped with parachutes to slow the drop (those in the distance in the image), and some will be dropped directly. In the CBI.

Ambulance backs up to plane preparatory to loading patient for quick trip to a base hospital of Major General C. L. Chennault’s Fourteenth Air Force in China. Watching the operation is Co-pilot David Craft of Reading, Pa., and Crew Chief Roy J. Duka, Detroit, Mich. Lt. Craft is seated in the plane and Corporal Duka is standing at the ambulance...

An indicator panel next to the door of a C-46 or C-47 transport's cargo door, used to coordinate air dropping of supplies. From the U.S. Government sources.

FLYING TIGERS IN HOSPITAL EVACUATION Chinese workers help service a C-64, loading fuel by hand crank, on August 1, 1944, somewhere in the China. The plane tail number is 35301. See related image. From the U.S. Government sources.

Homeward bound...through open door (which has been removed to facilitate unloading cargo on air dropping mission over front lines) crew look on mountainous terrain and rice paddies enroute to base at Yunnanyi, China. Photo by T/4 Clayton, 21 June 1944

KUNMING, CHINA--22 June 45... Every Friday the "Trojan" C-54 that travels non-stop from Calcutta to Kunming, China, arrives at the airbase bringing the copies of the "China Lantern" China Theater Newspaper. L to R: T/3 Andrew G. Hoover, Theater Information Education, Pfc David Holman, Omaha, Nebrl, ATC Flight Clerk, unload the papers from the "Trojan". Photo by Cpl J. J...

Due to the urgent need for reserve troops in the Lungling offensive, Chinese troops of the 200th Div., Chinese 5th Army, board a C-47 plane enroute to Paoshan (Baoshan). Yunnanyi, China. 9/15/44 Signal Corps Photo #CBI-44-60297 (Sgt. Wm. J. Randolph), from 164 Sign Photo Co.

Troops of the 200th Div., Chinese 5th Army, wait at the loading point of the Yunnanyi airbase, China, in preparation for the air trip in C-47's to Paoshan (Baoshan). 9/15/44 Signal Corps Photo #CBI-44-50292 (Tec 4 George Clayton), from 164 Sign Photo Co.

Maj. William H. Makepeace, left, G-3, Y-FOS (Y-Force Operations Staff), and Capt. Shao Lien watch Chinese troops of the Chinese Fifth Army Group board a plane at the Kunming Airport during a troop movement by air. Kunming, China, 9/69/44 Signal Corps Photo #CBI-44-29885 (Pvt. Frank Zervoulis), from 164 Sign Photo Co.