Flew the ‘Hump’ in the DC-3 from Chabua (VECA) in India to Kunming Wujiaba (ZPPP) in China passing by Putao (VYPT former Fort Hertz in Burma) and Lijiang Sanyi (ZPLJ).
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 military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and the units of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in China. Creating an airlift presented the USAAF a considerable challenge in 1942: it had no units trained or equipped for moving cargo, and no airfields existed in the China Burma India Theater (C...
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