Hi,
Can anyone point me in the direction of some more information regarding the following:
Dakota KN 414 Crash September 1946
On 25th September 1946, Dakota KN 414 crashed two minutes after take-off from Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport. One of the passengers on board was war crimes investigator Colonel C. Wild.
I would like to know what unit the Dakota was from, and who else might have been on board? Was any investigation ever carried out into the crash.
Many thanks
James
By: FarlamAirframes - 21st July 2011 at 09:02
Kev – again off topic – a friend of the family (family name Weir) – his father died in the defence of Hong Kong.
Many years later my father was in the Merchant Navy in Hong Kong – in harbour a local fell into the sea alongside the ship. No-one seemed to be doing anything -so my father jumped in and pulled him out. For years after every time one of the fleets ships came into port this local used to come down to see if my father was on board and if he was would come aboard and offer his services for any task in return for being saved years before.
Tiring of this – my father gave him the task of finding Mr Weirs grave in Hong Kong and putting flowers etc.. As far as we know he is still doing it.
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th July 2011 at 22:47
Mrs Lam Mour….!!
Honestly?! Or was that just Mr Davies’ floosie travelling under a thinly disguised and improbable pseudonym?
And as far as I know, Selly Oak hasn’t moved to Sussex!
By: kev35 - 19th July 2011 at 22:32
As far as I can tell from all the books I’ve read, Cyril Wild was very well thought of. I believe his MBE was awarded for service during captivity and a Mention in Despatches awarded for his work in Malaya early in 1942. Is it a conspiracy theory to suggest that Colonel Wild was assassinated for evidence he held against Emperor Hirohito and Unit 731? I don’t have the answer, but if evidence did exist confirming a link between Hirohito and Unit 731 then it would have made a real mess of both America and MacArthur’s vision of a post war Japan.
It would be interesting to know exactly what documentary evidence remains regarding what was at best a simple tragedy and at worst, well, it doesn’t bear thinking about, even 65 years on.
Regards,
kev35
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July 12, 2011 at 8:49 am