During an air raid, Lieutenant Kerr’s plane was shot down by enemy fire. Injured, Kerr fled from Japanese troops and was concealed by the Hong Kong-Kowloon Guerrilla Column. The fighters protected the American soldier and treated his wounds for nearly a month before he returned to his base in Guilin. Kerr later wrote a letter expressing his thanks, saying, “We [Americans] will always be with you as comrades, in Peace as well as in War.”