Skurnowicz

S/Sgt. Boleslaw A. Skurnowicz and a Chinese soldier at Kunming, China, during WWII. (Thanks to S. Skurnowicz for image and info!)

American flyers with the B-24 "Burma Queen," serial #42-73253, of the 425th Squadron, almost certainly in China. During WWII. Unknown exactly who they are, but they might be pilot Glenn Lowe, copilot Joel Grayson, and others who usually flew the plane. In China, on one mission another crew would "borrow" this B-24 for a mission and were eventually forced to...

Radio operation T/Sgt. Boleslaw A. Skurnowicz as member of crew of B-24 during training stateside. Boleslaw A. "Benny" Skurnowicz was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania in 1921. He was one of six children of Polish immigrant parents. Polish was spoken in the home and Benny learned to speak English in elementary school. His father, a coal miner, died from Miner’s Asthma...

The crew of a B-24 during training stateside. Top row, left to right: 2nd Lt. William Staskiewicz (bombardier) 2nd Lt. William U. DuMond (navigator) 2nd Lt. John P. Burkett (pilot) 2nd Lt. Wallace I. Ackerman (copilot) Top row, left to right: Cpl. Norman P. Reuter (asst. radio op) S/Sgt. Claude L. Crosby (ass't. engineer) S/Sgt. Herbert W. Robbs (engineer) Cpl...

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...