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Can I read Hell Is So Green : Search and Rescue over the Hump in World War II on EtoBox?
Hell Is So Green : Search and Rescue over the Hump in World War II by William Diebold; [foreword and afterword by Richard Matthews] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hell Is So Green : Search and Rescue over the Hump in World War II about?
Lt. William Diebold served in the Army's Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II and never fired a weapon in battle. Like many men who flew the Hump, he never saw on-the-ground combat, but he fought bravely by saving lives. Flyers who crossed the eastern Himalayas to keep the allied armies in China supplied with food, fuel, and weapons against Japan—preventing it from concentrating its power in the Pacific—often flew in zero-visibility, sometimes crashing into moun
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- William Diebold; [foreword and afterword by Richard Matthews]
- Publisher
- Lyons Press, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780762777143
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (70 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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