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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'...

A large bomb explosion as seen from a bomber during allied bombing in the CBI.

Before and during the bombing of a railroad bridge in China. Notice, in the before picture, the bomb craters to the left and to the right of the bridge. This was not the first time this bridge had been bombed. Veterans of the 491st, 22nd and 11th Bm Squadrons have told us that most often two or three months after...

This unidentified B-25C has its bomb bay doors open as the formation approaches a target somewhere in Burma. From the collection of Wozniak, combat photographer for the 491st Bomb Squadron, in the CBI.

A B-24 flying with smoke billowing up behind from recent bombing, in the CBI, during WWII.

Japanese occupied Changsha being bombed from the air in the CBI.

What was formerly a group of modern Chinese buildings in Liuchow now resembles a sprawling brickyard. Heavy aerial bombardment and artillery shelling made rubble of most of the city, and, combined with the advance of Chinese ground troops, contributed to the evacuation of the Japanese after Ichigo.

491st Bomb Squadron aerial bombing on small Chinese town during WWII.

Allied bombing of railway in Yunnan or Indochina during WWII.