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First Hump ferry pilots rise to China lifeline
Sgt Ed Cunningham reports from India on April 9 1942 as Burma falls and the Air Transport Command India China Wing expands the Hump airlift. The DC-3 carrying 100 octane fuel climbs over the Himalayas to support Doolittle’s force and Chennaul’s air power while high risk weather, mountains and Japanese threat test pilots, planes, and crews.
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Mr Transport Command
Assam
India
Far East
Burma
Claire L. Chennault
Tigers
Lashio
China
Himalaya
William Donald Old
Uvalde
Tex
Old
U. S
Himalayas
Burma Road
Air Transport Command
Yunnan
Chennault
Fourteenth U. S. Air Force
ATC
Joseph W. Stilwell
Patterson Field
Ohio
Guadalcanal
Salerno