"This book offers an interesting account of how one man tried to navigate the many hurdles that are involved in trying to locate MIA remains in a foreign country so many years after World War II."—Roger D. Cunningham, Journal of America’s Military Past
"The Hunt for Jimmie Browne is an engaging story, set in mountains, isolated villages, war memorials, bureaucrats’ offices, and more, with a rather bitter-sweet outcome. Highly recommended."—A. A. Nofi, Strategy Page
“Willett has poignantly captured the heroism of his cousin who went missing over ‘the Hump’ in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II in 1942. It’s a story about the pain a family experiences when one of its own is MIA and the lengths that Willett went to in order to seek closure decades later.”—Sam Kleiner, author of The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
“Not only a fascinating account of the short life of the subject but also a synopsis of the various organizations and units that played some role in Jimmie Browne’s life. The book recounts the struggles to bring him home. . . . It reveals that many of our MIA processes are in need of scrutiny.”—Billy McDonald, author of The Shadow Tiger: Billy McDonald, Wingman to Chennault
“The heartwarming story of a search for the remains of a relative who died flying the Himalayan Hump and the search for the aircraft and crew show the difference between a resourceful private American effort and a bureaucratic U.S.-Chinese government approach.”—Barry Martin, author of Forgotten Aviator: The Adventures of Royal Leonard
“Jimmie Browne’s love of flying lured him early into the Second World War. He went to England in 1941 as a ferry pilot, and in 1942 he joined China's paramilitary airline, flying cargo over the ‘Hump’ of the Himalayas. He died young, his body’s location unknown until 2011 and still unrecovered, a story Bob Willett tells fondly and well.”—Daniel Ford, author of Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941–1942