“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
