OVER THE HIMALAYAS
SUPPLIES FOR CHINA BY AIR LONDON, Jan. 5. More military supplies are now reaching China by air from India over the Himalayas than formerly along the Burma road. Reuter's New Delhi correspondent says this was officially revealed when secrecy was removed regarding the 20-months-old IndiaChina wing of the Air Transport Command, which is part of the U.S.A.A.F. The movement of munitions along China’s aerial lifeline has shown a phenomenal surge upwards during 1943. The tonnage transported in December, 1943, was 10 times that of December, 1942. American pilots, flying day and night, many with only the minimum of preliminary ti’aining, take up huge, heavily-laden, completely-unarmed two or four-engined planes to 17,000 feet over the “ hump,” as they call the route over the Himalayas. Along this skyline boulevard to China they fly unescorted within easy distance of Japanese fighters—the most dangerous stretch of aii’line in the world.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25427, 7 January 1944, Page 3
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