China Airlift; The Hump

  • Poplar Bluff, Missouri: China-Burma-India Hump Pilots Association, 1981
By [AVIATION][WW2] BREWER, James F. [Ed.] [with: HOWTON, Harry G.
Poplar Bluff, Missouri: China-Burma-India Hump Pilots Association, 1981. Second Printing. Two Vols. Quarto. 31pp. Publisher's textured dark blue rexine titled and embellished in embosssed silver glt to spines and front boards. 596pp.; 628pp. Clean and bright, very light wear; internally clean. A very good set indeed.

Two volumes (of an eventual four) detailing the amazing and courageous actions of the pilots and crews tasked with transporting supplies and men across the horrifyingly dangerous Himalayan "Hump" from India to China, enabling US forces to maintain supply lines for the conflict against Japan.

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