A U.S. Army Air Forces fighter pilot, identified by the fuselage stencil as Lt. C.C. Jerome, poses on the wing of his fighter aircraft in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. The nose data block also credits Crew Chief Jenkins, the enlisted mechanic responsible for keeping the aircraft flightworthy — a reminder that combat aviation depended equally on pilots and ground crews. Photographs like this one, common in squadron scrapbooks and theater press releases, celebrated the individual airmen flying missions over some of the most difficult terrain and logistics of the Pacific war. Project: 218381