Hunt for Jimmie Browne
Hunt for Jimmie Browne On Tuesday, November 17, 1942, aircraft CNAC No. This is the story of one family's search for answers about the aircraft and its crew, particularly the co-pilot, James S. 60…
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Hunt for Jimmie Browne
On Tuesday, November 17, 1942, aircraft CNAC No. This is the story of one family's search for answers about the aircraft and its crew, particularly the co-pilot, James S. 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.
Army Air Corps. 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. CNAC's 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