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An image from the Walter S. Polchlopek collection--Purple Heart notification for Walter S. Polchlopek, who was lost on May 20, 1944, over the sea near the south east coast of China, after a B-24 mission to strike Japanese shipping.
Unopened Yank and China Lantern newspapers that Ira Reiber sent home from China to his family during WWII. Ira Reiber served in the CBI.
An exclusively African-American crew uncrates and prepares M47 A2 chemical incendiary bombs for use on on a 20th Bomber Command Boeing B-29 raid. China, during WWII.
A sketch of "Vurgie" done in China in 1943 by the artist and prolific Hollywood actor Don Barclay. James C. Vurgaropulos's nephew and brother in 2008. James C. Vurgaropulos lost his life after a crash in China as he strafed a ground target in his P-40 (serial no. 42-104941) on Jun 29 1944. Lt. Vurgaropulos was on a mission leading...
Paul J. Koerner, born around 1917, was son of Mrs. Gertrude Gibbons who resided in Hagerstown, Maryland. He had his tonsils and adenoids removed at Washington County Hospital in June 1938, at around age 21. Paul J. Koerner enlisted in the Army Air Corps on October 10, 1940, prior to the start of war, in Baltimore, Maryland. At the time...