Chinese Rescue Crashed Shangri-La Bombers

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GLC#
GLC09553.11-View header record
Type
Images
Date
18 April 1942
Title
Chinese Rescue Crashed Shangri-La Bombers
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 silver gelatin photograph Height: 17.9 cm, Width: 22.9 cm
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
World War II

A black and white photograph of Chinese soldiers bringing a group of General Doolittle's raiders in a small village near where their bomber crashed. Featured in the photograph is Colonel John Hilger, who was injured in the crash. Attached to the back of the photograph is a press clipping describing the photograph with the date April 21, 1943.

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