The Arthur Humby Story
Bail Out Over China And The Long Walk Home

The Story

Chapter 4 — Page 4 of 4 Pages

April Diary Notes

April 18: Up at 8 - Fine bed but couldn’t sleep late. Coffee, biscuits, shaved, read and fixed odds and ends. Ate at 10:30 - Chinese meal. Read and played softball. Back to eat at banquet 6 - wine again. Bed at 9.

April 19: Up at 6 - walked two miles for American breakfast and ate five fried eggs. Loafed all morning and ate light Chinese lunch. Filled out interrogation forms. C-47 plane arrives so we took it to Chunking dropping Lt. Wells at Sian on the way. Showered and ate and then drank too much gin and lemonade.

[1. We were set up for a banquet with Mao Tse-Tung but we were
so sick of the stalling and double talk that we grabbed this
chance to get out while we could (on the C-47). In later
years I wished that I had stayed to down a few with Mao!]


April 20: Up at 7 - ate - got uniform and slept till lunch. Food fine and its great to be back to American chow. Interrogated by two Majors and a civilian
(from Intelligence). Supper - read - to bed at 10.

April 21: Up at 6 - breakfast at 7. Interrogated by General Gross, Deputy Commander of China theater and also by the G-2 of the theater. Drank gin - bull session and then to lunch.

April 22: Back to India and squadron via Air Transport Command. Flight crews were gone to Saipan and Tinian but ground personnel still there. Big reunion.

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