China National Aviation Corporation
At 21:30 on the 9th and HMS "Scout" were ordered to leave Hong Kong for Singapore, successfully evading the IJN blockade. Only one destroyer, HMS "Thracian", several gunboats and a flotilla of MTBs remained. Between 8 and 10 December, eight American plus a number of Chinese pilots of the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and their crews flew 16 sorties between Kai Tak Airport and landing fields in Namyung and Chongqing (Chungking), the wartime capital of the Republic of China. The crews evacuated 275 persons including Mme Sun Yat-Sen, the widow of Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Finance Minister Kung Hsiang-hsi.