Category Archives: World War II

A CNAC Short Snorter signed by movie star Jinx Falkenburg

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Gregory

Kai Friese, a writer and CNAC enthusiast in New Delhi, brought this to my attention yesterday — a short snorter signed by Ridge Hammell, Jimmy Scoff, Bob Jenkins, and Billy MacDonald (all of whom are CNAC pilots and characters in … Continue reading →

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China’s Wings on Facebook

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Gregory

I’ve built a Facebook page for China’s Wings, and if you “like” it with the button at the bottom of the sidebar on the right (or find and like it through FB search), you’ll find a photo album of CNAC-related … Continue reading →

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CNAC wreckage in the Himalayas

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Gregory

Recently, I posted the news that the wreckage of CNAC #60 had been found in a remote corner of Yunnan Province. The plane, a C-47, went missing on November 17, 1942. An article and three photographs about the discovery were … Continue reading →

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CNAC and the Flying Tigers

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Gregory

CNAC and the Flying Tigers… and that’s the American Volunteer Group, the real Flying Tigers,  not just any old US Army Air Corps pilot who served in China during World War II. (Ask any member of the AVG — they’ll … Continue reading →

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CNAC wreckage found in Western China

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Gregory

Bob Willett, CNAC association member and author of An Airline at War: The Story of the China National Aviation Corporation and Its Men, and Clayton Kuhles of MIArecoveries.org, recently discovered the wreckage of the first CNAC airplane lost on the … Continue reading →

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Some of my best friends, and some more on Barbara Tuchman

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Gregory

Building on what I said yesterday about how Barbara Tuchman’s book Practicing History helped me organize my research, through the years, I’ve read most of the major works in Barbara Tuchman’s canon: The Guns of August, The Proud Tower, A … Continue reading →

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Strongly recommended — Ian Toll’s Pacific Crucible

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Gregory

Now that I’ve survived the Christmas swivet and am buckling down to ramp up for China’s Wings’ publication (so much so that I’m probably going to curtail my surfing despite the ongoing run of excellence at Ocean Beach), I want … Continue reading →

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China’s Wings book jacket

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Gregory

This in from Bantam yesterday. (With thanks to photographer Stephen Alvarez for use of the pic he took of me in Iran last summer. His gobsmacking website is well worth perusing. And thanks also to my editor, Tracy Devine — … Continue reading →

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What bestselling author James Hornfischer has to say about China’s Wings…

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Gregory

James Hornfischer, bestselling author of Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, Ship of Ghosts, and Neptune’s Inferno recently gave this very generous review of China’s Wings: “Too many people think the war in the Pacific began with Japan’s sudden … Continue reading →

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An excellent CBI site

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Gregory

Here’s an excellent website devoted to the history of the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II (The CBI). It showcases an excellent collection of pamphlets, articles, circulars, documents, letters, stories, and photographs devoted to “remembering the forgotten theater of World … Continue reading →

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