2016

We are excited that, after years of hoping to find some kin of Lt. Wallace, who lost his life saving his crew (see our previous story of regarding William H. Wallace here), one last effort in fall 2015 has allowed us to get to know his daughter, Judy Ikels, and she has been gracious to share with us much about...

Richard "Dick" Harris in service in Lewiston, Idaho, in 1942. Hand colored image. From February to October 1945, Richard Daniel Harris flew C-46 military transport aircraft between India and China through the Himalayas in support of the war effort against Japan, carrying every kind of material or personnel over "the Hump." Only a young man only in his early twenties...

Sgt. Vern P. Martin posing with helmet and carbine in China during WWII. In China, mostly 1944, at only two postings, Luliang and Chenggong, near Kunming. In service period from November 6, 1942 to January 18, 1946. He was a member of 308th Heavy Bomb Group of the 14th Air force, serving in China during 1943 & 1944 "as a...

' Top image (above) is closeup of the original WWII compacted rock and gravel runway at the American Yangkai airbase, at the very south end of the runway, during our visit in February on 2016. Bottom image is an overgrown but original WWII taxi way to a still extant revetment, large enough for a heavy bomber. See other images from...