Two American flyers with A-26C Invader warplane (or B-26/RB-26). Seymour Mazer on the left. The 491st began converting to the A-26 in late July 1945. However, the 491st planes would likely not have been all black (i.e., a night intruder aircraft) which typically was not done until Korea-era. Mazer would have been navigator, the other officer wears pilot's wings. This...

Crew with a B-24J. Given that Mazer is a just commissioned "shavetail" 2nd Lt, this image is early in his career, likely while in navigator training stateside (or just possibly enroute to the CBI). Notice that the photographer or a censor has whited-out the plane serial number and other info. Joe Considine, Skiles, Erickson, Eisenstat, Schumacher, Pete Abrogast, Zimmerman, Axtell...

"Ike" - Me - Erick --- "Three Shavetails" Crew posing with a B-24J and map. Given that Mazer is a just commissioned "shavetail" 2nd Lt, this image is early in his career, likely while in navigator training stateside (or just possibly enroute to the CBI). During WWII. Notice that the photographer or a censor has whited-out the plane serial number...

American WWII flyer "Louie Gassett" with B-25s #1007, #445 "Reckless Virgin," and #442 by itself. The flyer's name being indicated as "Louie," and this almost certainly 2Lt Douglas H. Gassett, pilot; assigned 491st BS on 1 Apr 44. In the middle image, of B-25H Mitchell bomber "Shark Mouth" of Ringer Squadron, the 'radio call' number is marked here as #442...

B-25H Mitchell bomber #444 "Shark Mouth" of Ringer Squadron in flight in the CBI, in the area of southern China, Indochina, or Burma. During WWII.

Street scene in SW China during WWII.

Street scene in SW China during WWII.

Street scene in Calcutta during WWII.