Interesting, seen here.
http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/01/02/pilots-plane-found-in-himalayas-69-years-after-it-vanished/
A family searching for the plane of an American pilot have finally found it – 69 years after he disappeared.
The C-47 transport aircraft was 13,400ft up a Himalayan mountain, and is thought to be the final resting place of its pilot, Jimmy Browne, who was just 21 when he was shot down on a flight between Kunming in China, and Dinjan, India, on 17 November, 1942.
Browne’s cousin Bob Willett joined forces with wealthy businesman and adventurer Clayton Kuhles, who led a team that found and identified the wreckage in China’s Yunnan Province, according to the Daily Mail.
Jimmy Browne was on a mission for the China National Aviation Corp during the Japanese occupation of China, and delivered gasoline and ammunition to Kunming before heading back to Dinjan over the Himalayas when he disappeared.
It is thought there are still hundreds of airmen still unrecovered in the Himalayan mountains.
By: paulmcmillan - 5th January 2012 at 10:02
The aircraft construction number 4681 of the Douglas Aircraft allowed it to be positively identified as CNAC 60.
This makes it 41-18556
from http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1941_3.html
41-18556 (c/n 4681) to USAAF Sep 02, 1942 – 10th AF, India Oct 14, 1942. Diverted to Chinese National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) Dec 18, 1942. Missing during flight from Kunming to Dinjan Nov 17, 1942.
By: paulmcmillan - 5th January 2012 at 10:02
The aircraft construction number 4681 of the Douglas Aircraft allowed it to be positively identified as CNAC 60.
This makes it 41-18556
from http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1941_3.html
41-18556 (c/n 4681) to USAAF Sep 02, 1942 – 10th AF, India Oct 14, 1942. Diverted to Chinese National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) Dec 18, 1942. Missing during flight from Kunming to Dinjan Nov 17, 1942.
By: Atcham Tower - 3rd January 2012 at 18:25
Fascinating stuff – thanks for the link! Brief Glory, the ATA history published just after the war spells his middle name wrongly as Sallee, rather than Sollee.
By: Atcham Tower - 3rd January 2012 at 18:25
Fascinating stuff – thanks for the link! Brief Glory, the ATA history published just after the war spells his middle name wrongly as Sallee, rather than Sollee.
By: wieesso - 3rd January 2012 at 17:42
Some additional interesting stuff linked here
http://www.cnac.org/jamesbrowne01.htm
By: wieesso - 3rd January 2012 at 17:42
Some additional interesting stuff linked here
http://www.cnac.org/jamesbrowne01.htm
By: Atcham Tower - 3rd January 2012 at 15:42
This must be James Sallee Browne who flew with ATA as a Second Officer. One of his assignments was to the ferry pool at Kirkbride. Genovese’s book We Flew Without Guns has more details. There were Zeroes reported on the normal route and severe icing on the more northerly one. The captain,William Dean, decided to risk the ice. In Genovese’s words “That was the last we ever heard of Jimmy Browne and Dean.” Their names are among those in the book’s dedication.
By: Atcham Tower - 3rd January 2012 at 15:42
This must be James Sallee Browne who flew with ATA as a Second Officer. One of his assignments was to the ferry pool at Kirkbride. Genovese’s book We Flew Without Guns has more details. There were Zeroes reported on the normal route and severe icing on the more northerly one. The captain,William Dean, decided to risk the ice. In Genovese’s words “That was the last we ever heard of Jimmy Browne and Dean.” Their names are among those in the book’s dedication.
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