China Clipper
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 3:16 pm
China Clipper
by Ronald W. Jackson
Everest House.
C. 1980
by Ronald W. Jackson
Everest House.
C. 1980
This book started out as a history of Pan-Am's clipper planes but ended up as the story of the Hawaii Clipper which was Hi-jacked by officers of the IJN, and makes a must have companion to Charles N. Hills Fix on the Rising Sun.Ronlad W. Jackson, using 6,900 previously undisclosed documents, has fashioned a gripping tale that sheds new light on the events leading up to World War II. Detailing the situations, attitudes, and strategies of both the United States and Japan in the 1930s, he reveals the forces that brought these powers into a harrowing confrontation. The catalyst: the hijacking of the Hawaii Clipper by Japanese naval officers. Their target: a wealthy Chinese-American restaurateur, one of the passengers, who was carrying a sachel full of relief money (three million dollars) to the Chinese cities then besieged by Japanese troops.