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Men Pose With Tent At Campout

A campout with a number of US servicemen at Qingshuihai lake (清水海) in the countryside north of Yangkai (Yangjie) airbase in Yunnan province during WWII.  

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Submitted by Pat on Fri, 08/14/2020 - 10:24

Can't yet provide any names, but the jacket insignia on the seated man, fourth face from the left, is the "Bombing Eagle" of the 22nd Bomb Squadron, sister unit to the 491st and also stationed at Yangkai, Jan 44-Sep 45.  The 22nd changed from the unofficial "Bombing Eagles" to officially approved "Bombing Bulldogs" in latter part of 1944.  This could be a mixed group of personnel from the 491st and the 22nd.    tonystro    RE:Eugene T. Wozniak Collection--Campout

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A campout with a number of US servicemen at Qingshuihai lake (清水海) in the countryside north of Yangkai (Yangjie) airbase in Yunnan province during WWII.

Interestingly, in this image there are both enlisted men and at least one officer.  This is a bit unusual as the two groups had different places for recreation (with officers having vastly superior and a greater selection of clubs and services, etc.) and the two groups often kept separate as both part of tradition, and as part of military discipline. In addition to Wozniak as photographer, and Chinese staff who helped take care of the me, it looks like there are ten GIs on this outing. Could this be an air and ground crew together by chance?  If they were a crew who worked together, this would help explain to some degree the somewhat unusual instance of officers and enlisted men together on this outing.  Does anyone recognize these men?  Closeups of these men below.

See same image in the Frank Bates collection here. The annotation given for that image was simply "Wilbur Carter, Clarence Hall, end on right is Harry Gordon."

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