He said the majority of the 18,000 missing Americans are presumed prisoners. |
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"It is now generally called the Ledo-Burma Road. But there is little doubt that far more appropriately it could be named after the man whose almost single-handed pertinacity is responsible for this spectacular achievement. If history, in an off guard moment, should decide to do justice to one individual this overland lifeline to China should be known as "Stilwell Road." |
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A C-46 Curtiss Commando of the Air Transport Command spans a section of the fabulous Hump run from India to China. First sent to India before it had been adequately flight-tested because of the urgency of putting into operation a capacious high-altitude transport, the airplane gave many a pilot the horrors in the early days. But today, its "bugs" removed, it performs beautifully in its tough assignment of transporting supplies to China. |
The ICD's China Wing, besides receiving cargo transported over The Hump and expediting turn-about of aircraft to their India bases, also operates extensive transport activities in support of tactical forces. Here a group of Chinese soldiers board a C-87. |
Brig. Gen. William H. Tunner commands the India-China Division, ATC. He arrived in India in September, 1944, from the ATC's Ferrying Division, which he had headed since its establishment in 1942. |
Out in the open country, the plane relays messages to guide an elephant salvage party to a fallen aircraft by "walkie-talkie" from the ground station. It was all strictly new to the Indian guide. Behind him aboard the pachyderm are Lt. Robert C. Waldron and S/Sgt. John Q. Adams, while M/Sgt. James W. Foch is the lad afoot. |
Pig in a Poke? |
Meet two of the enlisted men who manned the night-searching B-25 in which Roundup's ace correspondent, S/Sgt. Edgar Laytha participated in a recent Burma raid. Top, Sgt. J. D. Miller, radio operator; bottom, Sgt. J. C. Lightvoet, engineer-gunner. |
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