I wanted to point out that an airline, China National Aviation Corporation (a Pan Am and Nationalist China partnership), performed even more massive evacuations from Chungking, Nanking and Hankow between 1937 and 1941, using Douglas DC-2s and DC-3s (C-47s). In addition, they flew thousands of Burmese to India in 1942.

That same outfit also flew Jimmy Doolittle, as well as more than 70 other passengers, out of China in a C-47 after his April 1942 Tokyo Raid.

Robert L. Willett
Merritt Island, Fla.

Flashback Photo Flop

A couple of alert readers wrote to point out that the Douglas XB-19 photo that ran in "Flashback" in the March issue was flopped. Although no markings are visible on the aircraft, they could tell because of the direction in which the ground crewmen are "propping" the engines. The image was scanned correctly, but evidently it had been flopped when the transparency was duplicated years ago. It is reproduced in its correct orientation below.

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