1943

Communications shack of the 23rd Airways Detachment at the Kunming Air Base, Kunming, China. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

American actor, comedian, and exceptional humanitarian Joe E. Brown gives US show at 14th Air Force China base. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Memorial poem and scripture from Clemson Memorial Service, December 7, 1944, where Lt. White and others were remembered. (Courtesy of Clemson University TigerPrints.) We hope to create here the story of William H. C. White, 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, who was killed on December 30, 1943 while on a bombing run on the Yangtze river. We plan to...

234th Station Hospital physical therapy nurses, and personnel tents in monsoon season, 1943-44. Chabua, India. Images provided by Michael J. O'Brien.

Troops boarding a transport ship in Karachi to go home after the war, 1945. Image provided by Michael J. O'Brien. In the CBI during WWII.

ATC C-46, tail number #112418, after it has crash, hitting Engineering Building at Kunming, China, in 1943. 308th Bombardment Group photo, provided by Robert L. Cowan.

"Thanksgiving 1943. Left to right center clockwise: Shanks, Simo, Widmoyer, Wolf, Capt Ratchford, Von Breyman, Burke, Boldt, Simonette & Sullivan. Howard M. Sharp is the Black mess attendant, and presently a magician in Washington D. C., name of HOSHA." Photo from Joseph J. Simon.

Man with elephantiasis in Pandaveshwar, India, during WWII, 1943.

Camel and owner on street, probably near Karachi, India, 1943. Photo by Frank J. Mueller, USAAF 1942-1946, provided by Mark G. Mueller.