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A lumber mill in Yunnan province, China. During WWII.
Images of escorting P-40 Warhawks with a painted shark's mouth somewhere over southern China, Indochina, or Burma during WWII, as taken from the tail gunner's window on a B-25 bomber. Close in is the P-40 nicknamed "Princess," tail number 155. Who is this man in the cockpit? This plane is likely of 75th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group.
Americans and Chinese on an administrative (ie, university or similar) or a housing compound, with a Buddhist pagoda in the background--indication that the grounds were likely once a Buddhist temple, later appropriated and converted during Nationalist social movements.
Christmas 1944 in one of the 491st Bm Sq enlisted men's hostels at Yangkai base, Yunnan province, China. In his book "Diary of A Bomb Squadron" McKay Nelson wrote, "Christmas was celebrated quietly. A truckload of Christmas packages for the squadron came in, early in the evening. Midnight Mass had to be cancelled due to a 'Jing Bao' air raid...
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.
In this intriguing photo, two B-25Cs of the 491st Bomb Squadron fly near the coastline in the CBI. Despite significant damage to the photo itself, still the content is very eye catching, so much that one wonders who the men in the turret and cockpit were.