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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563110296
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)
Download or read book China Airlift--the Hump written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John D. Plating
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603442375
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Hump written by John D. Plating and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the most ambitious airlift in history . . . Carried out over arguably the world’s most rugged terrain, in its most inhospitable weather system, and under the constant threat of enemy attack, the trans-Himalayan airlift of World War II delivered nearly 740,000 tons of cargo to China, making it possible for Chinese forces to wage war against Japan. This operation dwarfed the supply delivery by land over the Burma and Ledo Roads and represented the fullest expression of the U.S. government’s commitment to China. In this groundbreaking work—the first concentrated historical study of the world’s first sustained combat airlift operation—John D. Plating argues that the Hump airlift was initially undertaken to serve as a display of American support for its Chinese ally, which had been at war with Japan since 1937. However, by 1944, with the airlift’s capability gaining momentum, American strategists shifted the purpose of air operations to focus on supplying American forces in China in preparation for the U.S.’s final assault on Japan. From the standpoint of war materiel, the airlift was the precondition that made possible all other allied military action in the China-Burma-India theater, where Allied troops were most commonly inserted, supplied, and extracted by air. Drawing on extensive research that includes Chinese and Japanese archives, Plating tells a spellbinding story in a context that relates it to the larger movements of the war and reveals its significance in terms of the development of military air power. The Hump demonstrates the operation’s far-reaching legacy as it became the example and prototype of the Berlin Airlift, the first air battle of the Cold War. The Hump operation also bore significantly on the initial moves of the Chinese Civil War, when Air Transport Command aircraft moved entire armies of Nationalist troops hundreds of miles in mere days in order to prevent Communist forces from being the ones to accept the Japanese surrender.
Author : Otha Cleo Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Flying the Hump written by Otha Cleo Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forfatteren, der i perioden 1941-1946 var amerikansk pilot, beretter om de livsvigtige transportflyvninger, der under 2. verdenskrig fandt sted med militære forsyninger og personel fra Indien og Burma over Himalaya-bjergene til Kina.
Author : William H. Tunner
Publisher : New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Over the Hump written by William H. Tunner and published by New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce. This book was released on 1964 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Henry Tunner (July 14, 1906 - April 6, 1983) was a general officer in the United States Air Force and its predecessor, the United States Army Air Forces. Tunner was known for his expertise in the command of large-scale military airlift operations, first in Air Transport Command (ATC) during World War II, commanding The Hump operation, and later in Military Air Transport Service (MATS) during the Berlin Airlift in 1949-1951. He eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant general and commanded MATS itself."--Wikipedia, 10 November 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Tunner
Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 1491451661
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Pilots in Peril! written by Steven Otfinoski and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tells the story of U.S. pilots who faced danger every day attempting to deliver supplies over "The Hump" to the Chinese during World War II"--
Author : William J. Koenig
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780345097705
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Over the Hump written by William J. Koenig and published by Pan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretter om luftbroen "over the Hump", hvor amerikanerne fløj forsyninger til Kina under 2. verdenskrig
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ISBN 13 : 9780878333165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (331 download)
Download or read book China Airlift -- the Hump written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven C. King
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1468510940
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Flying the Hump to China written by Steven C. King and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-08-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A youngster's flying dreams become a reality when he enlists in the Army Air Corps. Flying ever more challenging airplanes, he earns his wings and learns the skills needed to fly the B-24 Liberator. He boards a plane for overseas, his destination being unknown. It turns out to be India, flying 4-engine cargo aircraft hauling gasoline over the Hump to China, where B-29s wait for gas to make bombing runs on Japan. Fear is not the enemy; fear is towering thunderstorms with lightning, extreme turbulence, driving rain, icing and headwinds. Over 150 photos clarify the dual CBI mission; the two year effort to reopen the Burma Road and the first airlift that delivered 650,000 tons of support to China.
Author : Jeffrey Ethell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Flying the Hump written by Jeffrey Ethell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Crouch
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 034553235X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book China's Wings written by Gregory Crouch and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight. At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying—sometimes literally—on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. V. Soong; Generals Arnold, Stilwell, and Marshall; and legendary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe. With the outbreak of full-scale war in 1941, Bond and CNAC are transformed from uneasy spectators to active participants in the struggle against Axis imperialism. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China’s survival. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China’s only overland supply route, Bond and his pilots must battle shortages of airplanes, personnel, and spare parts to airlift supplies over an untried five-hundred-mile-long aerial gauntlet high above the Himalayas—the infamous “Hump”—pioneering one of the most celebrated endeavors in aviation history. A hero’s-eye view of history in the grand tradition of Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London, China’s Wings takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to a time and place that reshaped the modern world.
Author : Hans Wiesman
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612002595
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Dakota Hunter written by Hans Wiesman and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of a lifelong passion for a WWII aircraft that changed the author’s life: “It is almost like an adventure novel except it is true” (Air Classics). This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in postwar Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, a.k.a. the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions of a romantic icon as the essential lifeline to a bigger world for him, the beginning of a special bond. In 1957, his family left the island and all its residual wreckage of World War II, and he attended college in The Hague. After graduation, he started a career as a corporate executive—and met the aircraft again during business trips to the Americas. His childhood passion for the Dakota flared up anew, and the fascination pulled like a magnet. As if predestined, or maybe just looking for an excuse to come closer, he began a business to salvage and convert Dakota parts, which meant first of all finding them. As the demand for these war relic parts and cockpits soared, he began to travel the world to track down surplus, crashed, or derelict Dakotas. He ventured deeper and deeper into remote mountains, jungles, savannas, and the seas where the planes are found, usually as ghostly wrecks but sometimes still in full commercial operation. In hunting the mythical Dakota, he often encountered intimidating or dicey situations in countries plagued by wars or revolts, others by arms and narcotics trafficking, warlords, and conmen. The stories of these expeditions take the reader to some of the remotest spots in the world, but once there, one is often greeted by the comfort of what was once the West’s apex in transportation—however now haunted by the courageous airmen of the past.
Author : James Paul Segel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544941875
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Flying the Hump to China, the Early Days written by James Paul Segel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kid from Boston yearns to fly. In December, 1941, he graduates from Army Air Corps Flight school and is assigned to a fighter squadron. But fate and Pearl Harbor intervene, and he is assigned AMMISCA, the first Air Corps transports to fly the treacherous "Hump" from India to China (the CBI Theatre). So many planes and crews were lost that the route became known as "The Aluminum Trail." This is Jim Segel's fascinating story of adventures in the air and on the ground in the early days of the world's first Air Lift. It is filled with his insights about the place of the CBI in the larger context of the war in the pacific.
Author : Nedda Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940773209
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Hump Pilot written by Nedda Davis and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true life exploits of a World War II pilot flying the dangerous route over the Himalayas, the book brings to light a little known facet of World War II. "Flying the Hump" was the name given by American pilots to flying over the treacherous air currents of the Himalayas during World War II. It was an extremely dangerous but necessary route American pilots traveled to bring vital material to Chinese troops in China, and American, and other Allied forces in the Pacific. The material transported, critical to the Allied war effort in the early days enabled the Allies to persist while the industrial might of the United States was retooling.--Publisher.
Author : Carl Frey Constein
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781585006434
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Born to Fly the Hump written by Carl Frey Constein and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of lyrics, thought experiments, and songs which deal through words and poetry with the depth of the experience of growing up. This includes observations of how people deal with life and conflict in more abstract forms, and attempting to fuse together the elements of writing musically with rhythm, and writing philosophically to explore how individuals think and why.
Author : Bliss K. Thorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hump written by Bliss K. Thorne and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's experiences flying supplies across the Himalayas to Allied forces in China, with the U.S. Air Transport Command.
Author : Mark D. Sherry
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book China Defensive written by Mark D. Sherry and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1996 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915850
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
