 Bill Sturgess with the crush hat in the center-right (Courtesy of Bill's wife, Freda Sturgess)  Lugguage Label (Also courtesy of Freda Sturgess) From CNAC Mailing Lists of 1964 and 1965: Wm. T. Sturgess CAT Taipei, Taiwan March 29, 2010 Moon Chin remembers that when he was living in Taiwan, William and his wife Freda would drive up to have dinners with Moon and his wife, Elsie. March 29, 2010 Tom, During WWII, Mr Sturgess was a Staff Sergeant in the US Army Air Forces, September 1942 to November 1945 (not sure where), and post-war, 1947-48, he was a regular crew member on CNAC flights, Shanghai-Honolulu-San Francisco, where he served as engineer, attached. Patti April 24, 2010 Hi: My mother, Freda Sturgess asked me to send you this e-mail. She has written out the following: Bill was not hired as a mechanic for CNAC. He had been a Flight Engineer in the military and was hired by Curtis LeMay for CNAC as a Flight Engineer. I do not have a computer so my daughter is sending this for me on hers. You can contact me through her or my phone number is 909 982 3116. I will try to get a tape recorder and send you a tape on Bill.. Sorry for the delay in getting in touch - but going back 60 + years isn't that easy! My mother has been gathering some things from those years - hopefully I can scan them and will send them along to you. PS- she'll be 90 this October and is still going strong. I call her my "energizer bunny" Sincerely. Lynn A. Larson (unfortunately, Freda passed away in 2015.)   or would like to be added to the CNAC e-mail distribution list, please let the CNAC Web Editor, Tom Moore, know. Thanks! |