Keepsake (above)--a piece of the parachute used to bailout, signed by all the people who bailed out that day. Text below courtesy of Elmer Bukey. This is a story about my bail-out from an 11th Bomb plane named "Chicken Charlie". On the 30th of March 1944 I was told to preflight the B-25 in preparation for a test flight prior...

GI members of SACO and a Chinese soldier relax in northern China during WWII.

On a ferry with Chinese soldiers crossing a river in southwest China during WWII.

"This is a picture of General 'Casey' Vincent's plane The Silver Slipper. The 396th prepared this plane for the General at Kwelin, China. Sgt. Joe Cooper of the 396th was crew chief of the plane. The two guys in the picture are Taylor on the left and Cooper on the right. Taylor was the radio operator on the plane."

"The Latest In Shops And Equipment--This a picture looking into a revetment that served as our work area and engineering area at Luichow [Liuzhou], China. Lt. Sohl's office was in the little shack at the right and all our tools and equipment was in the tent. We changed a lot of B-24 engines in this revetment along with replacing blown...

Burned American fighter, a P-51 or P-40, in Guangxi, China.

Charles A. Breingan was a WWII fighter pilot in the 23rd Fighter Group, 76th Fighter Squadron. Born and raised in New York City, he settled in Burlington, NJ, after World War II.

GI holding shark in Karachi, India 1942.