Once in a while I give in to the clamor of some of the members of my fan club, who insist that I show pictures from my colored past. So here is one that goes back to 1946, at the Kiangwan Airfield outside of Shanghai, where I was working as a civilian employee for the US Air Transport Command. You see me posing with two Chinese Nationalist (Kuomingtan - Chiang Kai-shek) soldiers in front of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. I was working as an air-transport clerk. Sometimes I got to operate a fork-lift (years before I learned to drive a car)! I was eighteen and three inches taller than I am now! This was three years before the Communists, under Mao Tse-Tung, won control of all of China. Shown below is a picture of a B-17 which I stole from Wikipedia.
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