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Mohanbari

Mohanbari Airfield, India, during WWII.
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...

MACR 1488

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MACR 1488 for a C-46 (number 41-12406) flight of India China Wing ATC, which was tragically lost on 20 December 1943 on a flight from India to China in the CBI,  during WWII.

The crew:

Pilot: 2nd Lt. Harold E. Greenberg, 0-796686
C/P: 2nd Lt. William R. White, 0-796253
R/O: Pvt. Russell E. Stanley, 32404305
A/E: Pfc. George C. Osborn, 34396150