Passenger connection Washington-Kunming

[edNorth]

Hi, responding from memory I can tell you this. Many years ago I was studying the ATC on the Northern Atlantic-Route from USAAF records. However in 1943 most of the (still too few) C-54´s were flown by AMERICAN CIVIL CONTRACT-CARRIERS (i.e. crews from TWA, Amercan Airliners, etc.) There were also used ´Transport´ B-24 Liberators, C-47, C-53, Boeing C-75 Stratoliners and some flying-boats but the USN was also flying R5D Skymasters but with VR- squadron Navy crews (mainly from 1944 onwards). The Skymasters were USAAF owned but run and flown by Civil crew in uniform. Since your guy flew on a ´Skymaster´ it was likely an military (camouflaged) C-54 or C-54A owed by the USAAF ATC ´South-Atlantic Wing´ as far as Africa or Egypt, then by USAAF C-47 from perhaps Egypt/India ....

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ed