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Flying the hump : in original World War II color / Jeff Ethell & Don Downie.
- Title
- Flying the hump : in original World War II color / Jeff Ethell & Don Downie.
- Author
- Ethell, Jeffrey L.
- Publication
- Osceola, WI : Motorbooks International, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | D790 .E845 1995 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Downie, Don.
- Description
- 168 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 27 cm.
- Summary
- The capture of the Burma Road by the Japanese during World War II forced US airmen to fly hundreds of missions a day into China in an airlift of epic proportions. Having to fly over the towering Himalayan Mountains, the pilots came to know this route as "flying the Hump." The Hump was a pioneering aviation operation that had just about everything working against it: the forbidding mountains, the worst flying weather in the world, deadly Japanese fighters, the crudest of navigational aids, unproven aircraft, and inexperienced flight and maintenance crews. Military commanders considered a flight over the Hump to be more hazardous than a bombing mission over Europe. -- back cover.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0760301131
- 076031131 (hardback) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^^95000391^
- OCLC
- 32626759
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library