Don Willmott Awaiting Transport at Kunming Airbase

Title: Don Willmott Awaiting Transport at Kunming Airbase
Caption: Diary, October 28: Up at 3:45 and truck to field. Took C-54 to Calcutta --- 4 ½ hours. Exciting!
Identifier: WFC_132
Description: Corporal Don Willmott waiting for the Douglas C-54 Skymaster to board for his flight to Calcutta with other US troops.
Commentary: When the war ended, almost all US troops were flown out of China from Kunming to Calcutta, where they waited for a steamer to take them to New York. He didn't know it at the time, but this was the last time Don Willmott was in China until 1978.
Creator: Al Seely?
Date Created: 1945-10-28
Location: Chengkung Airfield (呈贡机场) at Kunming
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/11493936/chenggong.html
Relation: US Troops on Plane from Kunming at End of WWII; Don Willmott in Douglas C-54 Skymaster Enroute to Calcutta; Looking Out the Window of a Douglas C-54 Skymaster
Source: Cory Willmott
Provenance: Donald Willmott to Cory Willmott; scanned by Elizabeth Willmott.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-01-31
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hump
Published In: A “Mish Kid” in the OSS in Wartime China, 1944 - 1945: Donald Willmott's Memories.

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