Kunming 昆明

The B-24 bomber "Mud Fish" hard on its tail in China during WWII. This B-24D, serial #41-24308, was assigned to 425th Bomb Squadron, 308th Bomb Group, at Kunming on 8 Jul 1943. The plane's nose gear was knocked loose hitting a concrete runway roller during takeoff. Then, knocked clear off plane near its bombing target at Haiphong, French Indochina (Vietnam)...

The "Burma Queen" in China during WWII. A Chinese guard keeps post in the merciful shade of the wing and a crew arms bombs on the ground not far from him. The crew of B-24J serial #42-73253, of the 425th Squadron, got lost in weather during return from bombing the city of Changsha on 22 July, 1944. When fuel ran...

A B-25D of the 22nd Bomb Squadron 'Bombing Eagles' of the 341st Bomb Group rests down on its belly at an airfield in Kunming, China, February 3, 1944. This wrecked B-25 Mitchell should be B-25D-15, #41-30385. Major Weatherly, the pilot, surveys the crash damage, as does and MP. At the base of the wing is a dark area: damage caused...

An image of Frank G. Ehle at the Nanjing (Nanking) Middle School on December 5th, 1945, with "Shamamee" and "Shahaitsa" (both not names but rather actually just transliterations of "little sister" and "little child" in Chinese)." These images were part of a small subset among the images collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (usually through reader submission) over many...