religion

Chaplain Dwayne H. Mengel conducts a temporary military burial in Yunnan, China. The 308th took heavy casualties, and one of the Chaplain's duties included burying recovered bodies in local graves until they could be repatriated after the war.

(Above: A "Flying Tigers" Reunion: Chaplain Mengel is pictured second from the right in this postwar reunion photo.) LT. COLONEL WW 2, CBI THEATRE Chaplain Dwayne Halley Mengel "Flying Tiger," 308th Bomb Group, 14th Air Force Chaplain Dwayne H. Mengel was a native of Gibsonburg, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Ohio Northern University, and Master of...

GIs singing during Church service in Chabua, India, during WWII. Photo provided by Michael J. O'Brien to the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (through reader submission) over many years of publication, and provided to the Remembering Shared Honor project.

Priest performing religious service; GIs with carriage and turbaned driver. Image from Mark G. Mueller. In the CBI during WWII.

Temple in India during WWII.

Religiously devoted men in India take part in self-flagellation and self-mutilation as a public performance of devotion to their gods. During WWII.

A parachute forms a backdrop in this Chapel in Kunming in 1945. Father Charles F. Meeus celebrates mass. The Father's pulpit is the cowling for the P-40K "Little Flower" flown by Ray Kaiser (25th FS). "Little Flower" was St Therese from Lisieux, France. (Thanks JBarbaud) Notice the corrugated metal making up the lower area of the alter, also likely parts...