The Hunt for Jimmie Browne
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-025-9 (ISBN)
On Tuesday, November 17, 1942, aircraft CNAC No. 60 climbed slowly toward the Himalayas, growing smaller and smaller until it finally faded from sight, never to be seen again-until seventy years later. This is the story of one family’s search for answers about the aircraft and its crew, particularly the co-pilot, James S. Browne.
Browne was a pilot for China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), an airline jointly owned by the Republic of China and Pan American World Airways and flown under contract with the U.S. Army Air Corps. CNAC’s mission was to pioneer and fly the dangerous Hump routes over the Himalayas to deliver gasoline, weapons, ammunition, and war goods. These supplies were desperately needed to keep China in the war, for if China left the war, more than one million Japanese troops would be free to control the Pacific.
Browne and his crew were killed in a plane crash while en route to Dinjan Airfield in India for supplies. Rescue missions following their disappearance were unsuccessful. Nearly forty years later, Robert L. Willett picks up where the search left off, hoping to find Browne, his missing cousin. After gathering crash-site information on a trip to China, Willett sends a search team on three ascents up Cang Shan Mountain near Dali, China, and finally strikes metal-the scattered wreckage of Browne’s C-47.
From the very beginning of the discovery eight years ago, Willett’s efforts to excavate the site and bring Jimmie Browne home have encountered bureaucratic roadblocks with U.S. government agencies and the Chinese government. His search-and-recover mission continues even today.
Robert L. Willett is an international bank consultant and former president of banks in Michigan and Florida. He is also a military historian and the author of One Day of the Civil War: America in Conflict, April 10, 1863; Russian Sideshow: America’s Undeclared War, 1918–1920; and An Airline at War: The Story of China National Aviation Corporation and Its Men.
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Part One–Jim's Short Life
Chapter One–James Sallee Browne (Jimmie)
Chapter Two–Air Transport Auxiliary
Chapter Three–China in the Past
Chapter Four–The Long Road to China
Chapter Five–China National Aviation Corporation
Part Two–The Fatal Flight
Chapter Six–The Flight
Chapter Seven–The Hump
Chapter Eight–The Crew
Chapter Nine–The AVG
Chapter Ten–The Plane
Part Three–The Search
Chapter Eleven–The Search Takes Shape
Chapter Twelve–CNAC Association
Chapter Thirteen–MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Chapter Fourteen–China Beckons
Chapter Fifteen–MIA Begins its Planning
Chapter Sixteen–The Agony of Fundraising
Chapter Seventeen–The Ascent
Chapter Eighteen–Enter JPAC
Part Four–The Plot Thickens
Chapter Nineteen–DPAA, PLA and Me
Chapter Twenty–Beijing
Chapter Twenty-One–The Next Step
Chapter Twenty-Two–Disappointment
Chapter Twenty-Three–Chengdu and the Statue
Chapter Twenty-Four–Conclusion
Chapter Twenty-Five
Epilogue
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 23 photographs, 3 illustrations, 2 maps, index |
| Verlagsort | Dulles |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64012-025-4 / 1640120254 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64012-025-9 / 9781640120259 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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