491st Bombardment Squadron B-25J's in flight. China 1944

Lengthening E-W runway, Chaukulia, India Dec 1943 or Jan 1944.

Rex B. Gouger, member of the 76th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group, in China in 1944.

Selig Seidler, "Typing a report to send to headquarters with film of last mission." Selig Seidler enlisted at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York on August 18, 1942. He was a member of the 16th Combat Camera Unit in the CBI during WWII. He originally joined the CCU on Detached Service from 12th Service Group on 16 Aug 1944 with...

Flying into Battle to Pray His Men Home! Pictured above in western Yunnan province, China, with Colonel William F. "Frank" Grubb, his war-time best friend, Chaplain Mengel went 'above-and-beyond the call of duty' by flying into battle with his men. Colonel Grubb recounted stories of how Chaplain Mengel rode in his co-pilot seat during bombing runs to pray until they...

Don Barclay (December 26, 1892 – October 16, 1975), seated on the right in the image above, was a Hollywood actor, voice actor, and artist who persevered to tour a number of regions during WWII providing USO shows and other entertainment to US servicemen. He was greatly appreciated by the GIs for not dropping out, for example, feigning illness or...

A sketch of the pilot James C. Vurgaropulos who died during a mission in 1944 in China, drawn in the CBI by the Hollywood actor, voice actor, and artist Don Barclay, during his first tour of China in 1943. See more about Don Barclay here.

"Don Barclay (seated in cockpit of P-40 fighter #42-9766), celebrated American artist, whose caricatures have appeared in nearly all the publications is now on a visit to Gen. Claire L. Chennault's 14th AAF. Barclay spent many hours with the 'China Blitzers' inhabitants of 'Sweat Hill.'"