1944

Bomb explosion on a mission on Hong Kong, 491st Bomb Squadron. Operation Report – Attack on Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong, October 16, 1944 Extracted from "The Record – 11th Bomb Squadron" Created by Squadron Personnel in 1945 In effectiveness, operations for October showed not the slightest decline. One mission of that month---a low-level attack on shipping in Hong Kong harbor...

First page of a letter from Ernest W. Garner who was lost on a flight in China during 1945. (Click here for second page)

A B-25D of the American 491st Bombardment Squadron is on the taxiway. Maintenance men who prepared it for the mission stand in the shade of tree. Small bombs, 100 pounds, are seen neatly stacked in the middle of the photo. Closer, in the center, are three 500 pound bombs. They lack the guide fins, and still have the transport 'rings'...

Members of the 61st Air Service Group marching in review on June 21, 1944, at LAAF (Laguna Army Airfield).

Aircraft #43-4978, "88", at Shamshernagar, Assam, India, 1944. This combat veteran B-25H was assigned to the 434th Bomb Squadron, 12th Bomb Group. The 12th Bomb Group moved from the Mediterranean Theater to join the 10th Air Force in india in late March 1944. They flew missions against targets in Burma until the war ended. (information provided by Tony Strotman)

Numerous P-51s lined at Assam, India, 1944, including serials #473932, and #415582.

'Four and final page of Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) for Warren J. Christensen, a P-40 pilot with the 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron who disappeared on a flight from India to China on June 12, 1944.(Courtesy of Chris Davis)For more about Warren J. Christensen, please click here --------------Do have more information regarding this item? Please contact pat@rshonor.org, or us the...