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The Return to Kungming

1941 Stateside Squadron photograph from Mitchell Field, Long Island, before foreign combat.

In 1998, I spent Christmas with my paternal grandparents in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. There I recorded my grandfather, a WWII veteran Army Air Corps pilot, recounting one of his missions from the war. It was footage that I had shelved for more than twenty years. I knew I wanted to make something of it someday. Now it’s been almost more than ten years since he passed away. Making this video was also a chance for me to spend time with him again. I’m so glad he was one of the “lucky” ones to survive the war.

World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps, Jim Caskey, recounts one of his missions.