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Funeral of 16th CCU cameraman Richard Dille “Dick” Arbogast in Kunming on June 2, 1944. The full crew died when their B-24 crashed into a mountain between Lingling and Kweilin in August of 1944. (It is possible most of the flag-draped boxes shown in the images here are from this same crash.) Sgt. Dick Arbogast, whom Hal Geer called "my...

A GI wins a prize during a variety show, while the band Jive-o-Lieps waits to play music in the CBI during WWII. 54th Air Service Group. Photo from Cal West.

10th Air Force combat cargo airdrome squadron softball team pose: Pfc. John Carroll, Corp. Herman Cole, Pfc. Michael Pezzulo, Thomas Bell, Pfc. Floyd Walker, Pvt. Arthur Hanold, Pfc. Michael Chup, Corp. Stanley F. Garwacki, Jr., Sgt. James Miller, Corp. James West, M/Sgt. William Boone, and Sgt. Robert Maringer.

Kitchen at Hsinching, China during WWII. T/Sgt. Paul West with cook. Photo from Paul A. West.

S/Sgt Anthony DeLuceney operating the camera, 1st Lt Lloyd D. Wiler, sound man, in front of the camera. The case in front of Wiler contains the amplifier for the sound recorder in the camera (it was a variable area sound system.) Capt Howard Pennebaker in back of the camera. Pennebaker was originally the Unit Adjutant until spring of 45, then...

1St Lt. Lloyd D. Wiler, Sound Recorder at the amplifier of the Wahl camera. In the background, holding the microphone is T/Sgt Guy West. Guy was our Unit clerk in our early days. When I headed for Kweilin cover the action, Guy became the unit Sergeant Major. In the spring of 1945 He returned Stateside to the Signal Corps Photo...