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On Tuesday, November 17, 1942, aircraft CNAC No. 60 climbed slowly toward the Himalayas, growing smaller and smaller until it finally faded from sight, never to be seen again--until seventy years later. This is the story of one familys search for answers about the aircraft and its crew, particularly the co-pilot, James S. Browne.
Browne was a pilot for China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), an airline jointly owned by the Republic of China and Pan American World Airways and flown under contract with the U.S. Army Air Corps. CNACs mission was to pioneer and fly the dangerous Hump routes over the Himalayas to deliver gasoline, weapons, ammunition, and war goods. These supplies were desperately needed to keep China in the war, for if China left the war, more than one million Japanese troops would be free to control the Pacific.
Browne and his crew were killed in a plane crash while en route to Dinjan Airfield in India for supplies. Rescue missions following their disappearance were unsuccessful. Nearly forty years later, Robert L. Willett picks up where the search left off, hoping to find Browne, his missing cousin. After gathering crash-site information on a trip to China, Willett sends a search team on three ascents up Cang Shan Mountain near Dali, China, and finally strikes metal--the scattered wreckage of Brownes C-47.
From the very beginning of the discovery eight years ago, Willetts efforts to excavate the site and bring Jimmie Browne home have encountered bureaucratic roadblocks with U.S. government agencies and the Chinese government. His search-and-recover mission continues even today.
Browne was a pilot for China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), an airline jointly owned by the Republic of China and Pan American World Airways and flown under contract with the U.S. Army Air Corps. CNACs mission was to pioneer and fly the dangerous Hump routes over the Himalayas to deliver gasoline, weapons, ammunition, and war goods. These supplies were desperately needed to keep China in the war, for if China left the war, more than one million Japanese troops would be free to control the Pacific.
Browne and his crew were killed in a plane crash while en route to Dinjan Airfield in India for supplies. Rescue missions following their disappearance were unsuccessful. Nearly forty years later, Robert L. Willett picks up where the search left off, hoping to find Browne, his missing cousin. After gathering crash-site information on a trip to China, Willett sends a search team on three ascents up Cang Shan Mountain near Dali, China, and finally strikes metal--the scattered wreckage of Brownes C-47.
From the very beginning of the discovery eight years ago, Willetts efforts to excavate the site and bring Jimmie Browne home have encountered bureaucratic roadblocks with U.S. government agencies and the Chinese government. His search-and-recover mission continues even today.
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Willett has poignantly captured the heroism of his cousin who went missing over the Hump in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II in 1942. Its a story about the pain a family experiences when one of its own is MIA and the lengths that Willett went to in order to seek closure decades later.
Sam Kleiner, author of The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
Not only a fascinating account of the short life of the subject but also a synopsis of the various organizations and units that played some role in Jimmie Brownes life. The book recounts the struggles to bring him home.... It reveals that many of our MIA processes are in need of scrutiny.
Billy McDonald, author of The Shadow Tiger: Billy McDonald, Wingman to Chennault
The heartwarming story of a search for the remains of a relative who died flying the Himalayan Hump and the search for the aircraft and crew show the difference between a resourceful private American effort and a bureaucratic U.S.-Chinese government approach.
Barry Martin, author of Forgotten Aviator: The Adventures of Royal Leonard
Jimmie Brownes love of flying lured him early into the Second World War. He went to England in 1941 as a ferry pilot, and in 1942 he joined Chinas paramilitary airline, flying cargo over the Hump of the Himalayas. He died young, his bodys location unknown until 2011 and still unrecovered, a story Bob Willett tells fondly and well.
Daniel Ford, author of Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 19411942
The Hunt for Jimmie Browne
An MIA Pilot in World War II China
Robert L. Willett
Potomac Books
An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
2020 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
Cover designed by University of Nebraska Press; cover image is from the interior.
All rights reserved. Potomac Books is an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press.
Photos courtesy of the author unless otherwise noted.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Willett, Robert L., 1926 author.
Title: The hunt for Jimmie Browne: an MIA pilot in World War II China / Robert L. Willett.
Description: [Lincoln]: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019015634
ISBN 9781640120259 (cloth: alk. paper)
ISBN 9781640122833 (epub)
ISBN 9781640122840 (mobi)
ISBN 9781640122857 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH : Browne, James Sallee, 19211942. | Air pilotsUnited StatesBiography. | China National Aviation CorporationEmployeesBiography. | World War, 19391945Missing in actionBiography. | World War, 19391945CasualtiesChina. | World War, 19391945War workChina. | China National Aviation CorporationHistory20th century. | Aircraft accidentsChinaHistory20th century. | Aircraft accidentsInvestigationChina.
Classification: LCC TL 540. B 7444 . W 55 2020 | DDC 940.54/8dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019015634
The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
This book is dedicated to the crew of CNAC No. 60
John J. Dean
James S. Browne
K. L. Yang
Three men who saw the need to act even before others
Contents
This book is about our search for my cousin James Sallee Browne, copilot of a C -47 flown for China National Aviation Corporation ( CNAC ). The plane left Kunming, China, on November 17, 1942, destined for Dinjan, India, across the Himalayan Mountains on a high-risk route called the Hump. Their plane vanished, and for years there were no efforts to find the plane or its three-man crew.
The news that Jimmie was missing came from CNAC headquarters, then in Chungking, simply stating that his plane had not arrived at its destination and now was officially declared missing. Six months to the day later, the U.S. State Department declared him dead. He was twenty-one years old, newly engaged, and an only son. His parents never did recover.
It is hard to state an exact date when our familys search for Jimmie began, but the project has been with us, part time or full time, for over twenty-five years. For months we would add nothing to our basic few facts, but then we found others who could, and would, help. One of the two main players was Clayton Kuhles, president of MIA Recoveries, Inc. of Prescott, Arizona. The other was the China National Aviation Corporation Association. Their role was communicating, supporting, and, not to be overlooked, funding.
No organization exists in a vacuum, and CNAC was no exception. A number of organizations played major or minor roles in Chinas tragic war years, and Americans, even before Pearl Harbor, played significant parts in some of them. The American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) was by far the best known, but even before they organized, Claire Chennault was advising the fledgling Chinese Air Force and American volunteers were helping units, both air and ground, as China fought alone against the invading Japanese.
Chinese losses, military and civilian, during those early war years were great. And present throughout was the fledgling airline CNAC , whose success through eighteen years of war was a testimony to the early pioneers of aviation, many of whom paid for their adventure with their lives.
Jimmie was one of these.
Any written work that covers several decades owes its existence to scores of people, organizations, repositories, and conversations, and I wish to thank all those with whom I have had dealings since this effort began. I can list only a few whose efforts were critical to the book.
First, to Clayton Kuhles and MIA Recoveries, Inc., I owe my greatest thanks. Clayton started with me back in 2004 and has been the principal source of information needed for the location of CNAC No. 60. It was Clayton who found the aircraft.
Second, Angie Chen, daughter of copilot Wei Ling Chen and fellow member of China National Aviation Corporation Association. It was Angie who found author Liu Xiatong and his book Flying the Hump, and later established contacts with Fan Jianchuan and Sun Chunlong.
Tom Moore is the creator of the website CNAC .org, which is a veritable encyclopedia of all things CNAC . Organizations such as University of Miamis Richter Library provided a wealth of information from its Pan American Airways collection. The Hoover Institute for War, Revolution and Peace on the Stanford University campus held collections of several noted CNAC and Chinese officials as well as data on the American Volunteer Group. My cousin Josh Rushton miraculously converted 1920s 16mm movies into crisp, clear videos. Helen Cole was an early supporter; we mourned her loss in 2018.
Most important to me during this project were my three offspring: Tom was my travel companion and caregiver on four trips, Leslie was the computer expert and resource person, and Barb was my copyeditor, proofreader, and final manuscript compiler. Without these three I would still be struggling to comply with Abigails requirements.
My Potomac editors who suffered through my delays, postponements, and my sometimes unorganized thought processes deserve accolades for their patience and compassion.
Jim and China
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