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Airstrip Dash and Burma Invasion Glory
Veterans recount Wingate Raiders relief airstrip operations in Burma. Cpl. Ralph Hammond and a diverse crew fly C-47 transports past enemy lines while Gurkhas guard, engineers race to finish a 3,000 foot grass runway, and gliders bring in British troops. P-51s and B-25s pound enemy airfields as Gurkha bravery and a Gurkha who relieved himself midflight become famed anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burma
W. Donald Old
Uvalde
Tex
Chindwin River
Astral Dome
Richard H. Barlow
Jamestown
N. Y
Norway
Dunkerque
India
F. W. Hutchinson
Jeffrey Farnel
Adam Penfeather
Buccaneer
Nebraska
Cochran
Roger
Otto Grunow
Grand Junction
Mick
Grunow
Wingate
James Oliveto
New York City
Oliveto
Howard Class
Gwynedd Valley
Fintain
Chindwin
Jackie Coogan
William T. Cherry Jr
Quail
Cherry
Eddie Rickenbacker
Central Pacific
Coogan
U.S
Billy Mohr
Portland
Oreg
Vernon Noland
Port Neches
Burma Strip
Cpl. Hybarger
Jerome Andrulonis
Shenandoah
St. Andrulonis
Hissmen
Joseph D. Walker
Richards, Tex
Ronald J. Cain
South Lincoln
Bennett
Cain
U. S
Onbank
Air Commando Force
Hubert L. Kragg
Fort Collins
Colo
Duke Phillips
San Antonio
Lester J. Murray
Fresno
Calif
Jake Newland
Spokane
Wash
Walter M. Steinkel
Niagara
Wis
Hadley Baldwin
Lisbon
N. Dak
Troy Shaw
Hot Springs
Ark
John N. Dehoney
Kansas City
Vincent L. Ulery
Charles Turner
Palo Pinto