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Wow, thank you so very much for this detailed post. Knowledge of this cemetery is so interesting and my eventual prove useful. All we know is that there were three people on the supply flight, all of whom died during the crash. One was supposedly repatriated and reburied in a military graveyard in Hawaii while the other two (as far as we know), we buried near the crash site.

I really really appreciate all this info, and some more leads for me to track down. I reached out to a Chinese professor who does a lot of forestry research in that area, a man named Donald Bishop who authored this page china.usembassy-china.org.cn/[...] ; and have been considering contacting this group called "The Nature Conservancy" that seems to have an office in Kunming www.nature.org/[...] .

I also happen to work at a library and have been getting some help from a librarian who speaks/reads/writes Mandarin/Chinese. Maybe she could help me contact Ge Shuya.

I will work on trying to track down Diego Kusak and contacting Ge Shuya to start.

Again I really really appreciate this detailed response. I have lots of new information to work with!

Forums > Living in Kunming > American Soldier Burials near Walnut Forest

Sure. These are the coordinates 25°26’30” N 98°42’30 E. At these coordinates is where the crash would have taken place, and the burial would have happened very close to that.

I was also trying to contact the Kunming Flying Tigers Museum, but the email they have listed on their website seems to be incorrect if anyone has any idea on how I might get in touch them as well.

Forums > Living in Kunming > American Soldier Burials near Walnut Forest

Hi all. I am a graduate researcher looking into some MIA American Soldiers who went down in March 1945 near a small village called the Walnut Forest. I have coordinates for a possible burial site. I am hoping to find someone who speaks English in that area that may be able to help me do some investigating.