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...
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)
Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: Moon Chin’s wife cheats death
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...
Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: one DC-2 gets wrecked & Moon Chin saves another
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...
Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: Tensions in the partnership threaten to tear the airline apart
Fleeing the Battle of Shanghai, August 1937: the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) was in bad shape--tensions in the Sino-American partnership threaten...
Fleeing Shanghai, August 16 & 17, 1937: Evacuating CNAC’s wives and children
Wives and children of CNAC's American personnel flee the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai, August 17, 1937.
Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: what happened to Donald Wong after he was hit by “friendly” machineguns
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 ...
How a bomb dropped in 1937 complicated my life, 2004-2012
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...
Shanghai, August 1937: Ernie and Florence Allison at the outbreak of war
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 ...
Moon Chin’s first air raid, part II
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...
Moon Chin’s first air raid, part I
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.