CHARLES DEAN ANDERSON (1914 - 1986)
"Dean" and "C.D."

(Pilot)
(CNAC October 9, 1944 - 1949)
(Captain - 194?)
(Hump Flights - ???)

This person has been tough to track down regarding his name. For a long time we had a "C.D. Anderson" a "Dean Anderson" and a "Charles D. Anderson". With the able assistance from Bob Willett we have finally realized that these three names belonged to the same man: Charles Dean Anderson


In the 1943-45 log book of Don McBride, Charles listed his home address as:

Charles D. Anderson
1014 W Capitol Dr.
Milwaukee Wisc.


Address in April 1949 was:
C.D. Anderson
2/316 Hing Kwo Road




Miami in December of 1943
left side front to back:
Dean Anderson and his wife Jean, an unidentified lady and William Dill.
right side front to back:
Bob and Thelma McCaleb, and Bill Helling.


Jean Anderson
(Courtesy of Arnold Schilperoot)


February 27, 2006

Tom:

I was at Richter library in Miami last week and reviewed some files. I discovered Charles Dean Anderson was the same as C.D. Anderson. His contract was dated 12/22/44 but he was on the payroll since October 9 while he was at American Flyers Flight school. He went out to China with William Helling, William Dill and Robert McCaleb leaving January 9, 1945. He went home on leave in July 1947, applied for an extension which was refused - "Have Anderson return immediately other wise release him in the states."



Incidentally, Mrs. Gene Banning has loaned me his notes about CNAC which he used for his book.

Bob Willett
willettr@bellsouth.net





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