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Tag: Outtakes from China’s Wings

Stories that didn’t quite make it into the book China’s Wings, by Gregory Crouch, which celebrates the life and times of the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC)

China's Wings

Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: the final disintegration

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Gregory / 0 Comment

Harold Bixby's last ditch efforts to save the CNAC partnership, August 1937. His wranglings with CNAC's Chinese leadership and with United States neutrality leg...

China's Wings

Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: Moon Chin’s wife cheats death

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Gregory / 3 Comments

Moon Chin's wife cheats death escaping Shanghai clinging to the outside of a train in August, 1937... Just as she fell, an anonymous arm grabbed her arm and hau...

China's Wings

Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: one DC-2 gets wrecked & Moon Chin saves another

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Gregory / 3 Comments

The China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) fleeing the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai in August, 1937. This episode details the wreck of one of CNAC's D...

China's Wings

Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: Tensions in the partnership threaten to tear the airline apart

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Gregory / 7 Comments

Fleeing the Battle of Shanghai, August 1937: the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) was in bad shape--tensions in the Sino-American partnership threaten...

China's Wings

Fleeing Shanghai, August 16 & 17, 1937: Evacuating CNAC’s wives and children

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Gregory / 5 Comments

Wives and children of CNAC's American personnel flee the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai, August 17, 1937.

China's Wings

Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: what happened to Donald Wong after he was hit by “friendly” machineguns

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Gregory / 2 Comments

Continuation of the stories of the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) fleeing Shanghai at the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai, August 1937. This one ...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

How a bomb dropped in 1937 complicated my life, 2004-2012

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Gregory / 2 Comments

Continued from this post about Ernie and Florence Allison at the outbreak of war in Shanghai, August 1937… A flight of Japanese warplanes roared across th...

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Shanghai, August 1937: Ernie and Florence Allison at the outbreak of war

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Gregory / 2 Comments

Shanghai, August, 1937: Allison grabbed his binoculars and dashed to the veranda to watch the dogfights. Florence begged him to come inside, but Allie couldn’t ...

China's Wings

Moon Chin’s first air raid, part II

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Gregory / 2 Comments

Nanking, August 15, 1937: The bomber peeled from formation and banked toward them. It leveled out and bore in at two-hundred feet, targeting the Generalissimo’s...

China's Wings

Moon Chin’s first air raid, part I

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Gregory / 5 Comments

What happened to some of the CNAC pilots during the dark days of August, 1937, when a colossal battle between Japan and China erupted in Shanghai.

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