Missionary Group Posing with Plane

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Title: Missionary Group Posing with Plane
Identifier: DS_053
Description: Isabelle Stinson poses with Stewart Allen and his three children (Margaret 8 years old, Gwyneth 4 years old and Phyllis 2 years old) in front of the Douglas DC2 14-passenger airliner that was to take them to Chongqing. A missionary woman, possibly Win Allen, can be seen at the back of the plane to the left of Stewart Allen. The airfield and mountains can be seen in the background.
Commentary: The Stinsons and Allens were travelling into Sichuan after the Japan had taken Shanghai. Travel up the Yangtze River was blocked off, so missionaries took alternative routes. On this occasion, Stewart Allen and John Stinson were seeing off Isabelle Stinson, Win Allen and the three Allen children, who were flying from Hong Kong to Chongqing, while the men took the Burma Road to accompany five trucks of luggage and mission supplies.
Creator: John Stinson
Date Created: 1938-04-19
Location: Hong Kong
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1819729/hong-kong.html
Original Format: black and white print
Relation: John Stinson Posing with Plane; Isabelle Stinson Posing with Plane; Isabelle Stinson in Window of Plane
Is Part Of: Allen-Stinson Burma Road Trip, 1938
Source: David Stinson
Provenance: Stinson Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-01-27
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: Phyllis Allen and David Stinson. 2022. "The Allen-Stinson 1938 Trip into China."

Item sets: Stinson Family Archives

Media: DS_053_6 April 1938 - Allen and Stinson.jpg

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