https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3200705/james-lee-schleicher

26 June 1944: B-29 Superfortress #42-6323 "Princess Eileen" 678th Bomber Squadron, 444th Bombardment Group (VH), 58th Bomb Wing, XX Bomber Command, 20th Air Force, USAAF, CBI Theatre of Operations.

B-29 #323 crashed north of Calcutta in-bound to MOB Charra Airfield in West Bengal, India from forward staging base Kwanghan Airfield (A-3) in China. Captain James Schleicher and crew are lost; there were no survivors. Last report aircraft was at 18,000 feet in thunderstorms.

As part of "Operation Matterhorn" to bombard Japan, his B-29 aircraft would fly over the Himalaya Mountain Range and logistically stage bombing missions through Kwanghan Airfield (A-3) at the Chengdu Aerodrome in China.

Around Chengdu, four runways were built, using 350,000 thousand Chinese laborers, as bases for B-29 Superfortress bombers. The four runways were named A-1, A-3, A-5, and A-7. Runway A-3, located at Kwanghan, was the forward base for the 444th Bombardment Group (VH).