When the history of the war in the CBI Theater is written, a glowing chapter will describe the deeds of the Air Transport Command's epic Hump-jumping operation. These photographs by Bill Vandivert, of Time, Life & Fortune, portray in part one of the typical flights over the rocky spine of the Himalayas from India to China. By spanning one of the most treacherous sectors in the history of flight with vital sinews of war the Hump fliers have done much to help
China stoutly maintain its resistance to the Japanese, who seized the nation's seaports and blockaded the interior.
Now the Ledo Road is also reaching out insistently toward a China recently isolated except for the ATC operation.
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