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August 6, 2007 Tom, This is a very late reply for you. I am very sorry that it took almost a year to write back to with my grandfather's pictures. I hope that you could track back/or remember it was last spring in 2006 I wrote you a short mail regarding my grandfather's service for CNAC in the early 1940s'. He one of the first eight military pilots assigned to CNAC by the Chinese Air force commander general. His name is Chang, Szhe Pu (I never know exactly how his name was spelled at that time, cause after the Communist took over China the spelling system changed. And for now his name should be spelled as Zhang, Zhe Pu under new system.) He was killed November 30, 1944 with two other crew members on his flight from Dinjan to Kunming. The flight pilot was Captain George Harold Anderson, and the radio operator was Wen De Bin (under the new spelling system, I found their names in a Chinese documentary book). My father was able to just keep three pictures of my grandfather. I am sending them to you for your use for CNAC organization. One is my grandfather's passport type of picture, one is he was in the Chinese Air Force uniform, and last one is his casual pictures. If you could find any stories and pictures of my grandfather, we will be very happy to receive them. Best regards, Alan Chang    On January 2, 2023 I received the following information from Alan Chang: I would like to share the following; My grandfather was born in 1909 (don't know the exact month and date) in Kaiping, Guangdong, China. We have the story of him passed on to us by mouth. At his early teen age, my grandfather moved to New York in USA, a reunion with his dad. He worked at his dad's corner laundry store,and at his spare time he learned to fly airplane. Soon after the Japan invasion of China, he went back and joined the Air Force. He later answered the call from the Air Force to fly the Hump, as the first group of seven Chinese pilots. After his death incident, my grandma went to the Hump flight base in Kunming, was able to pick up his suite case with only his uniform left. All the rest belongings were "gone" I am sorry, we don't have anything but just a few pictures of him left with us. My father was only 3 years old when my grandfather died in the accident, so there is very little we know about my grandpa (and my dad passed away in May last year) Thank you so much for your hard work to keep updating the CNAC website. All families and friends will greatly appreciate your dedication to commemorate all these Hump flight heroes. Wish you all the best Sincerely Alan Chang  or would like to be added to the CNAC e-mail distribution list, please let the CNAC Web Editor, Tom Moore, know. Thanks! |