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[winterbadger]

We Flew Without Guns

I was looking for something else (as I always am) when I found this. It's an autobiography of a guy who flew "over the Hump" for the China National Aviation Corporation, a "private" company that supplied the Nationalist Chinese government in southwest China by flying across the Himalayas from India. They flew out of Dinjan, in Assam, the same airfield used by the US Army Air Corps and where, I'm pretty sure, my dad was based during the war. So they were almost certainly in the same place at the same time, and they may even have run into each other.

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[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this! My Dad was also in the Army Air Corps on the China-Burma-India route. He was trained in radio operation, navigation and mechanics at Scott Field (now Scott AFB) in Illinois before going over there. He was a navigator on cargo planes going over the Hump. I wish I had paid more attention to his stories before he dropped dead in 1982.