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Flying the hump : in original World War II color by Jeffrey L Ethell; Don Downie is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Flying the hump : in original World War II color about?
The capture of the Burma Road by the Japanese during World War II forced U.S. 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, unpro
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jeffrey L Ethell; Don Downie
- Publisher
- Motorbooks International
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780760319154
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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