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The “Remembering Shared Honor” (RSH) project sets out to collect and preserve oral histories related to Chinese and American cooperation during the Second World War in the China-Burma-India(CBI) theater of war.
This historical archive has a total of 7,078 entries.
Sometime in 1943, a formation of early model B-25D Mitchell bombers of 491st Bomb Squadron are flying over the Chin Hills which separate far eastern India and northern Burma, including tail numbers #264650 (42-64650) and #129900 (41-29900). Initially in WWII, U.S. Army Army Force aircraft had the USAAF serial number painted on the side of the vertical stabilizer(s). The format...
A B-25D of the Ringer Squadron in the CBI. Identified as a B-25D-15 (built in Kansas City, Missouri), serial #41-30367, taken in summer 1943 at Kurmitola Airbase (Kurmitola, West Bengal, India), the 491st Bomb Squadron's station then.
A P-40, tail #264, down on its belly in Guilin, likely a 26th Fighter Squadron "China Blitzers" P-40K. Emblem painted on cowling prior to the application of a sharkmouth. (Thanks for additional info from jbarbaud.) From the collection of Hal Geer.
An image from the Roubinek Collection, showing a wrecked and broken-backed B-24 bomber in a boneyard near the base. in Yunnan province, China, most likely around the Luliang air base area.