Air route from Assam to Kunming passes over the Burma "Hump" where peaks are hidden in fog. Left, native labor helps fill gasoline truck close by airfield. Above, loading ingots of tin on a Curtiss C-46 at Chinese base for the return trip to India. Below, air view of Burma Road held by Japs. |
by Wayne Whittaker
FROM the crude loud speaker of the radio perched on a packing crate in the center of the bamboo hut came weird whistles and scratches. Eight pairs of ears belonging to American flyers reclining behind mosquito nets on four double-deck bunks, one against each wall, were cocked toward the speaker. Alongside the two barrack bags, rifles, steel helmets and gas masks beside each bunk hung the flyers' jackets bearing the insignia of the India-China Wing of the Air Transport Command. The only light in the hut was from a lantern suspended from a pole under the thatched roof.Natives erecting basha of cane strapped to bamboo poles to house Yanks |
|
|
|
|
|
|