Arizona

B-24 #44-44175, (formerly RAF KH304, IAF HE877), in a field at Pima, Arizona, in September 1974. (Image courtesy eLaRef with much appreciation.) Return B-24 From India in 1969 (AMOCO TORCH; Author unknown, but Mr. Weber had a carefully copied version among the materials he shared with Remembering Shared Honor, and we pass it along here.) It was near midnight, March...

Early crew make up, in Tucson, Sept. 1942. Front row: Lt. Columbus (navigator), Lt. Paul S. Hite (co-pilot), Lt. Edward L. McCoy (Pilot), Lt. Brown (bombardier). Back row: T/Sgt. Roy A. Whistle (radio), S/Sgt. George P. Sibulski (As. Engineer), T/Sgt. Russell F. Doman (Engineer), S/Sgt. Lester V. Bebout (tail gunner), Thomas Grady (As. Radio). Lt. Paul S. Hite would be...

B-24 bomber "C. E. 'Shack'" with crew on the ground. 425th Bomb Squadron, 308th Bombardment Group. Names painted on the nose of "C. E. 'Shack'" include those of 2nd Lt. Gordon C. Weems (copilot), 2nd Lt. Charles R. Thompson (navigator), and an unknown "Chick," who was possibly bombardier. (Info courtesy of deployment name list.) The crew apparently trained together at...

Instrument flying training. Sgt. Kenneth E. Brandon showing Capt. C. C. Wang, Chinese Air force, reactions of setting instruments in link trainer. India. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Members of the 61st Air Service Group marching in review on June 21, 1944, at LAAF (Laguna Army Airfield).