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Chinese laborers rest at noon on their work to rebuild the air strip at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, in 1944.
China-- Each U.S. Air Force is divided into Wings. Wings consist of several groups. They in turn are subdivided into Fighter Squadrons and Bombardment Squadrons. The Chinese American Composite Wing (CACW) of Maj. Gen. C. L. Chennault's (with helmet and brief case) 14th Air Force is the only one of its kind in the world. Brig. Gen. W.C. Morse (hands...
Lt John R. Herdic 1st Lt John R. Herdic (2nd from right) in front of a B-25 at Yangkai (Yangjie) airbase. Lt Herdic was KIA at Duong Dao, Indochina while bombing a railroad bridge on January 19, 1945. See the story about Lt Herdic here.

MACR 16368

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Missing Air Crew Report (MACR)  16368 for the loss of a B-25 "Lonesome Polecat" with the crew of Blades, Weaver, Lee, Shirley, Minden, Cave, Lyman, Frederick, and Kelly in 1943 near Tian Hoa (Tianhe), Canton.

Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

MACR 5023 BOOK

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Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) #5023 (three pages total), for a crew of four missing in Action (MIA) in the CBI during WWII, lost while on a flight from Jorhat, India, to Chengtu (Chengdu), China, on 15 May 1944, while flying in a C-87 (a variant of the B-24 airframe modified to carry cargo), as part of Air Transport Command (ATC).  The full list of members of this flight were:

 

1) Pilot: 2nd Lt. James D. McDowell

2) Co-pilot: 1st Lt. Carl F. Christian