Those Golden
Days Flying Out of China
Updated Nov. 19, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET
Regarding
Melanie Kirkpatrick’s review of “The Last Empress” by Hannah Pakula (“China’s
Mystery Lady,” Bookshelf, Nov. 4): When Chiang Kai-shek decamped to Taiwan in
1949, he took the gold with him. Trans Ocean Airlines picked up the gold in
Taiwan and transported it to Oakland Airport, home base, where it was
transloaded to a Slick Airways C-46 to be delivered to Chase National Bank in
New York. The plane was grossed out with a payload of seven tons of gold.
I was the
pilot of this flight and have often wondered who ended up with the gold.
William P.
Willoughby
Retired
Captain, Slick Airways
Palo Alto,
Calif.
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