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Flight Journal, Apr 2005 by Bergin, Bob

William "Black Mac" McGarry survived the War. He wandered through heavy jungle until he was found by Thai police. He was turned over to the Japanese, who held him in a compound in Bangkok. In early 1945, when Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officers were infiltrating Thailand, Chennault asked them to find him.

With the help of the Free Thai (Thailand's anti-Japanese resistance), McGarry was found, freed and taken by boat to the Gulf of Siam, where he was picked up by a PBY Catalina flying boat. He was flown to China and reunited with Chennault. Among those at the Kunming airport when he arrived was Ed Rector, who last saw him waving from a jungle clearing in Thailand on that March day.