[Quix]

What time period was he in China?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My dad was born in 1906. he accompanied his father to China to install some of the first Otis elevators in Shanghai in the 1920s. He learned to fly back in Ohio and Michigan and returned as a commercial pilot for china National Airline Company, owned by American Airlines (later by PAA.)
He was a little too old to step forward in WW II so he joined the US AAF as a civilian pilot in the China-Burma-India Campaign and flew C-46s over the Hump. I came along via a second marriage in 1948 and he took the family to Japan in 1950 where I grew up as an Army brat. He worked in Tokyo for the the US Army's Japan Procurement Agency as a buyer of raw materials in the 1950s. He was truly an "Old China Hand."