1944

2nd Lt. Marlin S. Savidge was co-pilot 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 August 14, 1944 during take off from Kurmitola, India, on the way to Liuzhou, China. See more on that event here. Lt. Savidge was born on September 19...

1Lt Edward H. Karger was the navigator 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. Edward graduated from the University of...

The crew of B-24J #42-73315 when on August 14, 1944 they departed their base in Kurmitola India to fly fuel and supplies over the Himalayas to US Army Air Forces based in Liuchow China. Their plane crashed immediately after takeoff, killing all aboard. 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. These men were in the #42-73315 incident on...

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...

The B-24 "The Frendlin" and crew in China during WWII. This B-24J, serial #42-73265 was assigned to 425th Bomb Squadron at Kunming. The plane departed Liuchow on 20 May 1944 for a planned sea sweep mission with return to Kunming. However, it was hit by enemy fire during the mission forcing the crew to bail out prior to reaching a...

Vance Rigsby Harry Epstein Jack Fineman Chuck Reynolds Harry In Champaign, Illinois, January 8, 1944.

A Chinese grave near the American air base--the inscription is especially poignant, referring to a man named Fu Shouyong, crushed to death by an American aircraft during summer 1944, while far from his original home of Dinghai county, Zhejiang province (near the eastern seaboard of China). (浙江定海县傅守永） This was image was likely taken Yunnan province, China, most likely around the...

Rural landscapes as seen from a B-25 Mitchell, in SW China, or Indochina, or the China-Burma border area. Karst mountains can be seen clearly in the lower image.

Smoke rises from probable American air attacks on Japanese ground troops, probably in Guangxi province, probably during the Japanese Ichigo campaign of 1944.