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• Book:An Airline at War  + (The author, Robert "Bob" Willett, was insp … The author, Robert "Bob" Willett, was inspired to write this book by the memory of his cousin James S. Browne. His cousin James died in November, 1942 when his plane crashed in the Himalayas. James was a Co-Pliot flying for the China National Aviation Corporation (C.N.A.C.). National Aviation Corporation (C.N.A.C.).)

• Book:China's Wings  + (...''One of the book's most engaging chara … ...''One of the book's most engaging characters is pilot Moon Fun Chin, one of CNAC's first Chinese pilots. Capt. Chin (still with us) was responsible for evacuating Jimmy Doolittle from China after his historic "30 seconds over Tokyo" raid. Crouch recounts how the apparently unflappable Chin told a skeptical Doolittle, riding as a passenger, as he stuffed the last of 66 desperate passengers onto the same CNAC flight: "Calm down Major. I, Moon Chin, know how much people a DC-3 can carry, and this one can carry sixty-six." And as it happens, Chin didn't know he had six others riding as stowaways in the tail.'' others riding as stowaways in the tail.'')