Against The Rising Sun
- Life and Times of the 341st Bomb Group (M) -
"Preserving the memory of their Sacrifices!"
From the collection of
Clyde Dyar
( 490th Bomb Squadron )
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Hundreds of Chinese peasants working to build the airfield at Hanchung, China, 1945.
(Courtesy of Clyde Dyar - 490th Bomb Squadron )
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Home away from Home, a "lend-lease" tent from our field at Warzup, Burma, set up on the flight line at Hanchung, China in 1945.
l. to r.; Garrett, Scott, Sharp, Dyar.
(Courtesy of Clyde Dyar - 490th Bomb Squadron )
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Garrett (l.) and Dyar (r.) with their houseboy "Leo", and a crap game going on behind them. Hanchung, China, 1945.
(Courtesy of Clyde Dyar - 490th Bomb Squadron )
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"We dug a well and used P-51 drop tanks for water storage for our shower down on the flightline at Hanchung, China in 1945. Sun heated the water for us."
l. to r.; Sharp, Scott, Dyar.
(Courtesy of Clyde Dyar - 490th Bomb Squadron )
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Sharp (l.) and Scott (r.) display the results of their pheasant hunt at Hanchung, China. Note the carbine, no shotguns needed for these sharp shooters!
(Courtesy of Clyde Dyar - 490th Bomb Squadron )
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"Bill Sharp's been over too long, he's gone native. They gave him a wheelbarrow to haul a sack of cement. He came back with the cement on one end of a pole and the wheel barrow on the other. Hanchung, China, 1945.
(Courtesy of Clyde Dyar - 490th Bomb Squadron )
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Clyde Dyar (in back) and Scott testing the waters of a river near Hanchung, China, 1945.
(Courtesy of Clyde Dyar - 490th Bomb Squadron )
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Clyde Dyar in front of a pagoda on the main street of Hanchung, China.
(Courtesy of Clyde Dyar - 490th Bomb Squadron )
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Clyde Dyar (not the one with the baskets) visits the "Great Wall" at Hanchung, China, in 1945.
(Courtesy of Clyde Dyar - 490th Bomb Squadron )
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