Kai Tak-Mme Chiang Kai-shek & sister Mme HH Kung with Airport Superintendent AJR Moss & his wife | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Kai Tak-Mme Chiang Kai-shek & sister Mme HH Kung with Airport Superintendent AJR Moss & his wife

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Kai Tak-Mme Chiang Kai-shek & sister Mme HH Kung with Airport Superintendent AJR Moss & his wife
Submitted by IDJ
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IDJ
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Kai Tak Airfield

VIP visitors departing from a side of the Kai Tak civil hangar we do not normally see in photographs

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Thursday, June 15, 1939
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1930s Hong Kong
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Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2016-01-31 09:30.

Thank you for posting this Here is an aerial view of the civilian hangar at Kai Tak pre-1941.

Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2016-02-07 23:32.

I saw Moss, the Superintendent of Kai Tak Airport, who was a personal friend of both sisters {Madame Sun and Madame Kung}, and begged him to keep in close touch with them, and if the worst came to the worst {the Japanese attacked}, bundle them on to some outgoing plane somehow or other. He promised to do his best.

Morris 'Two-Gun' Cohen, cited in Charles Drage, The Life and Times of General Two-Gun Cohen, 1954, 284

Submitted by moddsey on Mon, 2016-02-08 17:53.

The evacuation of Madame Sun and Madame Kung from Hong Kong on 10 December 1941 is better described in "Wings for Embattled China" by William Langhorne Bond who was Operations Manager of CNAC.