B-25 Mitchell

"With Chinese Military Guard Standing Close By, Ground Crew Of The 14Th Air Force Work On A North American B-25, Preparing It For Another Raid On Enemy Installations." This is likely B-25D-15, #41-30381, assigned to the 491BS/341BG while the unit was stationed at Chakulia. A ground crew of the 341st Bombardment Group does maintenance to the tail gunner position on...

3rd Bomb Squadron's B-25J "Smilin' Jack" (named after the popular 3rd Bomb Squadron commander, Maj. Jack M. Hamilton, thence “Smilin’ Jack”). This B-25, A/C #714, serial #43-27809, was taking off from Liangshan on mission #112A to bomb and strafe railroad yards at Loyang when the pilot lost control and crashed just to the side of the runway. 3nd Bomb Squadron...

B-25s drop parachuted mines in Irrawaddy River during WWII. 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in Burma.

Flyers with 22nd Bombardment Squadron B-25H Mitchell bomber at Yang Chiseh Airfield, Yangkai, Yunnan Province, China in February or March 1944, during WWII. Rear: Bob Selmer, David Hayward. Front: George Scearce (right). [Note: the B-25H only has two .50 caliber machine guns, in addition to the 75mm cannon, installed in the nose versus the normal four. This was due weight...

Flyers with their B-25 at Chakulia, India, in 1943. Rear: Dave Hayward, Tony Mercep. Front: George Scearce, Wilber Pritt. 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in the CBI.

Flyers with B-25 Mitchell bomber. Rear: Wendell Hanson, J. Percival. Front: Unknown, Frank McKenna (center), and Sgt. Douglas Bell (right). 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in the CBI.

Flyers with 22nd Bombardment Squadron B-25 Mitchell bomber at an American base in China during WWII. Rear: Bob Selmer, David Hayward, Jim Curran. Front: George Scearce (center).

Flyers with their B-25 Mitchell bomber. Bucky Fiske, Jim Sullivan, Art Lynch. Tony Mercep, "Pres" Preston, Dale Meiers. 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in the CBI.

B-25 crew poses in field near 22 Squadron's quarters on their home airbase, Chakulia, India. 1943. Dave Hayward, Wayne Craven, Frank McKenna, Les Norris, Dale Miller, Elwood Slayton. 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in the CBI.

Flyers with their B-25 at Chakulia, India, in 1943. Dave Hayward, Tony Mercep, George Scearce, Wilber Pritt. 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in the CBI.