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Seymour Mazer in June, 1942. 1st Lt. Seymour Mazer was born on January 7, 1922 to Joseph and Mollie Mazer as their first child in the Bronx, NY. Later his family added a younger brother Jerome. Seymour graduated from Dewitt Clinton High School and married Claire Kellerman in 1942. They had two children, Robert (USMC), and Mark. Their father Joseph...
Funeral of 16th CCU cameraman Richard Dille “Dick” Arbogast in Kunming on June 2, 1944. The full crew died when their B-24 crashed into a mountain between Lingling and Kweilin in August of 1944. (It is possible most of the flag-draped boxes shown in the images here are from this same crash.) Sgt. Dick Arbogast, whom Hal Geer called "my...
The crew of B-24J #42-73315 when on August 14, 1944 they departed their base in Kurmitola India to fly fuel and supplies over the Himalayas to US Army Air Forces based in Liuchow China. Their plane crashed immediately after takeoff, killing all aboard. 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. These men were in the #42-73315 incident on...
GIs in China enjoy time laughing at movie celebrity Pat O'Brien's jokes. Seated left to right are S/Sgt. Quisenberry, Pat O'Brien, S/Sgt. Robert L. Sorenson. Standing are S/Sgt. T. W. Wilson, Sgt. Joseph Campion, S/Sgt. Leslie Piehl, S/Sgt. Jerry Dusek, Sgt Wallace Jackson, Sgt. Henry E. Kubieck, Pvt. Gordon Escore. In rear are Pvt. Kenneth Hummel, Sgt. Andrew Adamchik, S/Sgt...
African-American servicemen--Sgt. Smith, Allen, Jones, Pon, Spencer, Turner, Wilson--of the advanced medical detachment of the 21st Quartermaster Regiment. In the Burma during WWII.
Allied base or depot buildings in the CBI during WWII. Photo from Robert M. Wilson.
Outdoor theater for GIs at Tezpur, India, during WWII. Photo from Ken Wilson.
A nude man on the street in India during WWII.
Women carrying baskets on their heads, likely in India. During WWII. Photo from Robert M. Wilson.
Aircrew of the 491st Bomb Squadron, in the revetment at Yangkai, China with B-25J #439. In front are (left-right) S/Sgt George K. Wilson (radio) and Pvt. Rowland G. Cox (gunner). Standing behind are (l-r) Capt. Alfred K. Patterson (pilot), S/Sgt Anthony E. Waskiewicz (engineer), Lt. Heinz H. Templin (pilot). (Information provided by Tony Strotman)