JANUARY 7, 1945
CRASHED IN A MOUNTAINSIDE CEMETERY ABOVE THE CITY OF TALI


From Fletcher Hank's, "WHEN AND HOW THE CNAC CRASHES HAPPENED ON THE HUMP AND ITS ENVIRONS DURING WWII" (hand-dated 5/4/02)

Sherwin "Fuzzy" Ball, 01/07/45, C-47 #102.
All 3 crew killed. C/P, H.M. Chu, R/O: C.H. Lam (all were Chinese. Fuzzy left Kunming for Dinjan. Lost an engine over Tali Lake. The plane hit in a mountainside cemetery above the city of Tali. The bodies were found in the wreck. Jim Dalby was the first CNAC man to the wreck.
Source: Jim Dalby.

The following excerpt comes from "The Aluminum Trail" by Chick Marrs Quinn.
See booksetc01.htm for details about this and other related books.


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