B-25 Mitchell

Memorial poem and scripture from Clemson Memorial Service, December 7, 1944, where Lt. White and others were remembered. (Courtesy of Clemson University TigerPrints.) We hope to create here the story of William H. C. White, 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, who was killed on December 30, 1943 while on a bombing run on the Yangtze river. We plan to...

First Lieutenant Hampden Wallace Harding, bomber pilot and holder of the Air Medal for more than 300 combat missions, was killed March 13 in fighting over Hainan Strait, China. His plane was witnessed to have been struck by tracers in the cockpit and navigation area by Japanese Zero fighters during a window of time when the bombing mission was without...

The "Skull & Wings" insignia on plane's side near the nose indicates this parked B-25J Mitchell is assigned to 490th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group. The 490th had stayed in India, attached to Tenth Air Force, when 341st BG moved from to China in January 1944. With aerial combat finished in Burma, the 490th BS (attached to 312 Fighter Wing)...

Work at an American airbase in China, provided by the "Liberator Club." In the CBI during WWII.

22nd Bombardment Squadron bombing of Dara Bridge, in Thailand, at 13:45 on October 25th. During WWII.

11th Bomb Squadron (M) personnel on a B-25 bomber at Kunming, China. March 4, 1943. From John Chapman.

B-25 "Pin-up Girl," tail #39, in a revetment in the CBI during WWII.

A ground crew preps a B-25 for flight in the CBI during WWII. East India. "Sgt. Marshall Wikey went on flight to take photos."

An American flyer in a B-25 in the CBI during WWII.

Combat crew members are standing before a B-25D Mitchell bomber of 22nd Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group at Kurmitola Airbase. The 22nd Squadron had two insigne while assigned in the CBI during WWII. The first "Bombing Eagles" is seen here. Soon after being transferred to Yangkai, China in January 1944, the Squadron adopte the "Battlin' Bulldog" insigne.