C-47

Men push woven baskets, with attached parachutes, out of a cargo plane mid air as part of an air drop in the CBI. Photo from Glenn Hensley.

"A pallet, possibly mule feed, goes out the door over Burma. Look out, fellas. Don't go with it." In the CBI. Above in an image collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (usually through reader submission) over many years of publication, and provided to the Remembering Shared Honor project.

Bags are piled in cargo plane ready for aerial drop to Allied troops. Some will be dropped with parachutes to slow the drop (those in the distance in the image), and some will be dropped directly. In the CBI.

Here is an initial file regarding 1st Lt. Nick Gazibara, pilot with the 74th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group, in China, killed in 1945 in China. Below is a short narrative kindly provided to our project by his younger brother Don in 2008: Nick Gazibara DOB 12/18/1922, Export, PA Father Robert (Bozo) immigrated from Yugoslavia in 1914 Mother oldest of...

Selig Seidler plays patient being loaded into or out of a C-47 transport in a publicity movie:"During filming for nurses publicity move. Acting as stretcher case, S. Seidler, feeling fine."

General Chennault on the flight line in conference with pilot officers, navigators, and bombardiers, while a camera crew catches it all in this contrived scene. In SW China, during WWII. See another set of related images here.

China-- Each U.S. Air Force is divided into Wings. Wings consist of several groups. They in turn are subdivided into Fighter Squadrons and Bombardment Squadrons. The Chinese American Composite Wing (CACW) of Maj. Gen. C. L. Chennault's (with helmet and brief case) 14th Air Force is the only one of its kind in the world. Brig. Gen. W.C. Morse (hands...

Officers of the 61st Air Service Group, 10th Army Air Force, Shamshernagar Air Base, India, August 1945. This is a scanned photo from the small collection of photos taken during by my grandfather, Wilson Pardee Porch, from his time spent in India during the Second World War. Capt. Porch is back row all (include all officers that are standing) 10th...

Officers of the 61st Air Service Group in Shamshernagar, India in August 1945, posing before the C-47 "Regina the Queen". 10 Army Air Force.