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Time travel across decades: Yunnanyi, China
When I set out for Yunnanyi on the rainy morning of Friday, August 22, I wasn’t just visiting another small town in Yunnan.
I was stepping into a place that holds a piece of my family’s story.
My grandfather was based here during World War II, part of the Army Airways Communications Service (AACS).
Sep 116 min read


Yunnan Province: Robert Mooney Memorial
First Lieutenant Robert H. Mooney was a fighter pilot from Kansas City who came to China after Pearl Harbor.
Sep 91 min read


Lake Dali: at the foot of "The Hump"
The next stop on my journey to retrace my grandpa's footsteps during World War II in China brought me to Dali, which he referred to as "Tali" (Wade-Giles name) in his notes and photos.
We took the high-speed train from Kunming, which took about 2.5 hours, and my first impression was that the lake looked huge!
It was also the first time I got to see the beginnings of the famous Hump mountains, and they sure looked ominous.
Sep 33 min read


Kunming: Flying Tigers, Hump pilots, & the AACS—oh my!
Earlier this year I decided to follow in my grandfather's footsteps to China, where he served in the Army Airways Communications Services (AACS) from May 1944 to months after the end of the war in November 1945.
To kick off my trip, I first landed in the city of Kunming—the largest city in the Yunnan Province with a little more than eight million people.
It's also a place filled with history—the former home of the Flying Tigers—and my grandpa's first arrival point after fly
Aug 294 min read
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