Chaplain Paulįrillmann performed the burial service. March 16, 1942: Emil was buried in the Chinese Cemetery for MilitaryĪviators, 8 kilometers east of Kunming on the Kweiyang road. Lynch, advisor to the Central Bank of China four Major General Lancelot Dennys, chief of the British military mission toĬhina, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick L. Three crew members and ten passengers died, including Emil, Ma(about 9:30/45 P.M.): Emil was killed in the crash ofĬNAC’s last DC-2, #31, shortly after take-off about 2 km from KunmingĪirdrome on a flight to Chungking, as reported in the New York Times, 9, 1942: Letter from Beth Steele (Betty Scott’s Mother) refers to Emil as "Sandy". Identified the following eight CNAC pilots who participated in the air evacuation of December 15, 1941: The New York Times, this date, (This photo Courtesy of Emil's nephew, Tom Moore) Hong Kong, 10 December 1941." Copied from photo loaned by Ron Thomas, Dunedin, Fl credited Scott, of Waco, TX (one of the 1st CNAC pilots to flyīack into Honk Kong to evacuate personnel after the Japanese attack of 8 December 1941) leansĪgainst wall of "new quarters" at Chungking, China, the morning after the last flight to December 10, 1941: PAN AMEICAN AIRWAYS: CNAC (EVACUATION FROM HONG KONG. She now resides in San Francisco, California. Until Betty’s release, she did not officially know of Emil’s death, but she had read of the accident and suspected about his death, from an English Phillipine newspaper. Betty meets Carl and Shelley Mydans (photo journalists) while interned at Santa Tomas, in addition to the Brazee sisters and the Sams family. DecemFebruary 1942: Betty "Georgi" Scott is interned by the Japanese at the fall of Manila at Santa Tomas (Hospital) Camp and then to Los Banos until she is released at the end of the war in 1945. A similar picture is in "Wings Over Asia, Vol IV", but his photo is courtesy of Judy Polanich, the niece of Paul "Pop" Kessler.
Also, an unidentified male military or PanAm (?) person in a white hat, at Sharp's left. Monday, November 11, 1941: Letter from Betty "Georgi" Scott, A3 MiramarĬhuck Sharp, Pop Kessler, Maj Woods and Emil Scott while they are hiding among boulders during a Jap raid a short distance from Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong. November 8, 1941: (Point of history - First CNAC flight over the Hump Should be on passenger - $800 a month - in about three or four weeks." August 11, 1941: Letter from 164 Argyle Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong.ĭecides to join the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). Scotty's complete Great Adventure can be found HERE. The following information has been provided by Scotty's nephew, Tom Moore. I'll write a notice on our newsletter to ask members of BAA (which includes all ex-CNAC fellows in China) will help you for collecting CNAC materials, and support the website of CNAC on the internet.įollowing this email, I am going to post you a copy of the pictorial album of "Fifteen Years of Beijing Aviators Association", a greeting card and a brochure of Sino-American WWII Vets Reunion in China. Also, you can contact Fletcher Hanks who was a CNAC pilot in 1943-1945 (Tel:41) Chin (Tel:65) who served for CNAC since 1930s and he became a chief pilot since 1940s, now living in San Francisco. John "Dick" Rossi (Tel:76), who was a pilot in CNAC from 1942-1946, Mr.
If you want to collect any souvenir, you'd better to collect in USA or Taiwan. Almost all the CNAC fellows in mainland of China lost or destroyed their things relating to CNAC. Because all those precious memorial things have been lost during the so called Cultural Revolution during 1966-1976-a ten years disaster. ( Note: Actually, my uncle's name is on one of these tablets )īoth Lu, I and other ex-CNAC fellows are not be able to keep any CNAC materials-flying jacket, uniforms, pin, badge, etc. I believe Scotty is qualified to have a name on the tablet. 3300 names of the aircrews sacrificed in the Anti-Japanese War were carved on 60 tablets which was located in Nanjing (Nanking) in 1995. The monument was initiated and built by our association (Beijing Aviators Association). Your uncle's name was not carved on the tablet in the monument to the Air Martyrs in the Anti-Japanese War. He knows the story of the crash accident of Emil Scott.Ģ. Loh) asking him for info about your uncle. I've called Mr.Yuanbin Lu (former name Y.P.
I was a copilot during 1945-1946 in CNAC, so I didn't know your uncle.
It is a pleasure to read your letter dated 20 Nov.1999. The following e-mail from Renjie Hua came on December 13, 1999. (Photo Courtesy of Scotty's nephew, Tom Moore)
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