How the SF earthquake made Moon Chin a citizen, Part I
Moon Chin was born on April 13, 1914 in Wing-Wa Village, a tiny hamlet in the undulating coastal lowlands of Kwangtung Province about 60 miles up the Pearl Rive...
Category: China’s Wings
Posts related to my book, CHINA’S WINGS
Moon Chin joins CNAC
A windsock hung limp from a pole that sprouted from the roof of the largest commercial hangar in China; it might have been the largest in Asia, capable of holdi...
Three great pilots
CNAC’s first three Chinese-American pilots: Joy Thom of Los Angeles, Moon Chin of Wing-Wa Village and Baltimore, Donald Wong of Chicago. All three were bo...
All roads led to Moon Chin
I’ve been focusing on whipping the China’s Wings manuscript into shape with Tracy Devine, my editor at Bantam Dell, and I’m thrilled with the ...
Lunghwa Pagoda, a thousand-year old landmark for CNAC pilots
1930s photo of the famous landmark
The Chungking Airport, probably in 1938
Chungking’s Sanhupa Airport, probably in 1938, which had the feel of a frontier colony. Because it was built on a Yangtze sandbar, all the buildings on th...
Moon Chin, the most amazing World War II pilot you’ve never heard about
I’ve been meaning to write a blog post about Moon Chin for several weeks, but I’m so embroiled in revising the China’s Wings manuscript that I...
CNAC sign on the Shanghai Post Office
I’ve been neglecting the blog lately, what with holiday logistics and the MASSIVE distraction of tweaking and revising the China’s Wings manuscript ...
DC-2 over Lunghwa Pagoda
DC-2 over Lunghwa Pagoda, close to Shanghai’s Lunghwa Airport, 1935.