Wings From Burma to the Himalayas

by John W. Gordon

Jack Gordon's gripping story of the fliers of the China-Burma-India Theater vividly recaptures the experience of the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron. Gordon has preserved a vividly realistic picture of what it was like to fly through monsoon and Japanese action to drop supplies in support of those opening the Burma Road and to cross the treacherous, uncharted skies of the Hump in their C-47s. The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew from India to China to re-supply the Flying Tigers and the Chinese Government of Chiang Kai-shek.

Flying over the Hump was a risky endeavor. The air route led first over the Himalayan foothills and finally to the mountains, between north Burma and west China, where violent turbulence and terrible weather was standard. Transport planes flew around the clock with some crews flying as many as three round trips every day. Hardcover. 265 pages. 10 pages of b/w photos from the time.