B-24 Liberator #44-49855 is shown here on the tarmac at Clark Field in the Philippines. Assigned to the 19th Squadron, One of her first missions was the 22 BG's first strike on China on 21 March 1945. Her target was the dispersal area near Samah Airdrome on Hainan Island off China's southern coast. Leading 23 ships, she was flown by Captain Lawrence Wulf, the Red Raiders' Operations Officer. The strike was a joint effort of the 5th AF's 22nd and 43rd bomb groups.