[JudyB1938]

Your father was a very brave man. Only the BEST could do what he did. I know you are very proud of him. Have you made a website about him?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I've thought about it. He was born in 1906 and was a little too old to 'step forward' like men who were 15 and 20 years younger. He was a civilian pilot for China National Airlines Company, then owned by American Airlines (it had various owners, including Pan American)and had lived in Shanghai in the 1930's. He went back to Asia as a Department of the Army Civilian in 1950, and I was raised as an Army brat in Japan.
One of the more unusual stories concerned his relationship with a Masonic Lodge he joined in Shanghai in the 1930's. The lodge was moved out of China to Tykyo in 1949 when the Communists took over the country. Dad rejoined the same lodge when he came to Japan almost 15 years later.