Captain Bernard J. Webster poses in the cockpit of his fighter aircraft, number 455, its fuselage marked with a row of small mission tally symbols recording the sorties already flown. Personal photographs like this one, preserved in Edward P. McAleer's wartime album, humanize the statistics of aerial combat, putting a name and a face to the men who flew day after day over hostile territory, often in the demanding China-Burma-India theater where fighter pilots faced difficult terrain, poor logistics, and determined enemy opposition. Project: 218147