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CHARLES OLDER Died June 17, 2006 Retired Los Angeles judge Charles Older died of complications from a fall at age 88. Judge Older was the man who presided over the 10-month trial of Charles Manson and his followers. He was portrayed by actor Skip Homier in the 1976 Emmy-nominated TV mini series "Helter Skelter." Judge Older served his country as...

Flying cadets at Oxnard, CA, flying Stearman PT-13 ATs. during WWII. Richard D. Harris third from the right.

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...

L B Kriner was a gunner on B-24J #42-73315 assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. He and the remainder of the crew tragically lost on take off on August 14, 1944 from a Kurmitola, India, on the way to Liuzhou, China. See more on that event here. He was the son of Walter R...

USS General William Mitchell, troopship with the 599th Air Engineering Squadron, 383rd Air Service Group rode from California to India in World War II.

T/Sgt. Harold D. Robertson (inset in image), ASN 17052777, disappeared during an L-5 flight on 7 May 1944. (Also in the image is Rex Davis, and Floyd Whitney; image taken at Desert Army Air Base, California, summer 1943. Image provided by 5th Liaison Squadron Flight Line Chief R. J. Koppel.) Entered military service from Clay County, Arkansas. Admitted to hospital...

961st Petroleum Products Laboratory members on the boat towards home, on SS Marine Adder, at the end of the war, arriving in San Francisco in 1946.

“This is a B-25 C/F/G I worked on in 2 years in India & China.The plane was in Alameda, CA helping to celebrate Navy/Fleet Week in Oct. 1995" --Frank Willard Bates, Sr. Frank W. Bates was a member of 491st Bomb Squadron, and served in the CBI during WWII. Assigned to 491st on December 1, 1942 as an Aircraft Maintenance...

Chew K. Wong of Sacramento promoted to Captain in the Air Corps. In October 1943 he was assigned to Air Service Command and put in charge of salvaging the airplanes that have crashed and are scattered throughout China. He has been recommended for the Legion of Merit.