World War II in 20 photo essays
They're well worth perusing...
Category: China’s Wings
Posts related to my book, CHINA’S WINGS
In honor of what is perhaps my very favorite piece of narrative non-fiction…
footage of Seabiscuit's match race with War Admiral, which took place 75 years ago today, on 1 November, 1938, with 40 million Americans glued to their radios....
Bondy & Kitsi’s wedding photos (including Harold Bixby)
My eyes popped out over these classics of William Langhorne Bond's 1935 wedding with Katharine Dunlop, none of which I'd seen before.
Chinese Airports, then and now, on Business Insider
Here’s an interesting “then and now” story about Chinese airports by Alex Davies published this morning on Business Insider. I helped Alex loc...
CNAC trip to Seattle — Museum of Flight and Historic Flight Foundation
Photos of my recent China's Wings trip to Seattle's Museum of Flight and Historic Flight Foundation.
China’s Wings Events in Seattle, 28 and 29 September 2013
Priceless opportunities to get your copy of China's Wings signed by 100-year old Moon Chin
DC-2 & DC-3 flying in formation
Great photo! The DC-2 is the last airworthy DC-2 in the world, and the recently-restored DC-3, wearing Pan Am colors, is an airplane that once flew for the Chin...
2013 CNAC reunion party at Moon Chin’s house
Photos from the 2013 CNAC Association party at Moon Chin's house
What are those huge concrete arrows pointing the way across America?
Do those things really exist? What are they doing out there, and what purpose do they serve? Turns out that they do, and they were once crucial to the U.S. Airm...
Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: the final disintegration
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...