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Chargement... Over the Hump: Airlift to Chinapar William J. Koenig
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Appartient à la sérieBallantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century (Campaign 23) Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II (Campaign 23)
The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in World War II to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the units of the United States Army Air Forces and the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek. This type of airlift was a considerable challenge in 1942 as the USAAF had no units trained or equipped for moving cargo, and no airfields in India for the large number of transports required. The Americans in the China-Burma-India theater were able to accomplish this assignment, which had significance beyond the end of the war. Because of the experience, it was possible to operate the Berlin airlift in 1948 and when the Korean war required large scale emergency air movements, the techniques were already available. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The "Hump" airlift was one of the major efforts of the US Army Air Force in the Second World War, and it has never received the publicity it deserved, because it was critical to keeping Chiang Kai-Shek in power and China in the war against Japan. The technologies and techniques devised in the airlift enabled the US and Britain to feed Berlin during the 1948 blockade and the massive airlift efforts of Korea, Vietnam, and other wars, and the air freight operations of the modern age.
To the crews who worked and flew in the difficult and primitive conditions, it was a ghastly ordeal. Hump aviators didn't have to deal too often with Japanese fighters, but the Himalayan mountains were tough enough. The route was called the "aluminum trail" for the line of crashed airplanes along it, whose remains lie there to this day.
Mr. Koenig's prose is fairly typical of the series, and the photographs, all black-and-white, along with a few illustrations, convey both the difficulties of the operation and the struggles between the colorful American, British, and Chinese personalities who commanded in the theater: familiar names like Stilwell, Chennault, Chiang, and Mountbatten.