Quentin Kaiser's Photographs of Scenes Around Corsica
![1. 489th BS Insignia from B-25 at MAAM,
2. 340th BG Insignia from Q. Kaiser's A2 flight jacket (1944),
3. NASA space shuttle photo of Corsica,
4. 12th Air Force patch,
5. U.S. Army Air Corps Patch .](TitlePage2.webp)
![Roadside marker.](CorsicaScene03.webp)
![Another roadside marker.](CorsicaScene05.webp)
Two roadside kilometer markers photographed by Quentin Kaiser on Corsica in 1944.
![A road through the town of Cervione.](Cervione.webp)
![Justice of the Peace.](CorsicaScene11.webp)
Roadside scenery in the town of Cervione, four miles north of the airfield at Alesani.
![Cervione, Corsica.](CorsicaScene02.webp)
The town of Cervione as seen from the southern approach along the road from Alesani.
The beautiful hillside town of Cervione, Corsica.
![Some Corsican goats.](CorsicanGoats.webp)
![A Corsican donkey.](Donkey.webp)
![QCK standing by an old ox cart.](CorsicaScene04Cart.webp)
![Three amigos at Alesan: Kaiser, Naughton and Devine.](KaiserNaughtonDevine.webp)
Here's my dad standing by an old ox cart and with Naughton and Devine, by a tent.
![Another old cart.](CorsicaScene09.webp)
![A scene from Corsica.](CorsicaScene01.webp)
![Another scene from Corsica.](CorsicaScene08.webp)
![QCK and 1000 pound bombs.](CorsicaScene06Bombs.webp)
![QCK and 1000 pound bombs.](CorsicaScene07Bombs.webp)
Here's my dad sitting on some 1000 pound bombs. B-25J 9V "Miss Rebel" is in the background.
![The signs for each of the four squadrons of the 340th Bombardment Group (486th, 487th, 488th &
489th).](SquadronSigns.webp)
Quentin Kaiser took these pictures of the signs posted by the tent camp areas for each of the four squadrons of the 340th Bombardment Group- the 486th, 487th, 488th and 489th Bombardment Squadrons.
![QCK with dog 'CANADAK' in defensive 50 caliber gun trench behind his tent at Alesani.](DadDogGun.webp)
This is my dad with "CANADAK," the dog named for the four tent mates: Carter, Naughton, Devine and Kaiser, in the defensive 50 caliber machine gun trench behind their tent.