Bates

Aircraft mechanics George Butsika, John Aspinwall, Clayton E. Nash, pose next to a B-25G of the 491st Bomb Squadron at Yangkai AB, China, shortly after the squadron arrived in January 1944. M/Sgt Aspinwall was the maintenance Line Chief, responsible for all 491st aircraft maintenance.

491st Bombardment Squadron personnel with shark-mouth B-25 bomber inside tidy revetment in China: Peterson, unknown, Konkolics (?), Larry Johnson, unknown, Silvernail (?)

Ringer Squadron low-level bombing in French-Indo China, 1944.

B-25s of the 491st headed for Burma (?) August 1944, putting a breach in a wall.

B-25 "Niagara's Belle", #439. Pete Bertani , Yangkai, 1945.

Nose art detail on Wabash Cannonball. Photo annotation: "1007 Wabash Cannonball, Kealy 25, Yangkai, 1945."

The B-25 "Reckless Virgin." Frank Bert 25, Yangkai, 1945.

B-25 "Japutie Slugger," #442. Butsika 25, Yangkai, 1945. Note burning of paint on fuselage around muzzles of the two blister-mounted .50 machine guns.

B-25 bomber "Rhode Island Red," #448. "Queen of the Squadron, agree?"

Luichow Kid LD Jones, William "Wild Bill" Gornik (engineer-gunner; on the right, sitting on the bunk), Schmidt, CE Jones. Christmas at Yangkai, China 1944. From the collection of Frank Bates.