# Flying the Hump in Original WWII Color, Vol. 1

By **Don Downie**

- ISBN-13: 9780760319154
- Series: [Motorbooks Classic Ser](https://mybookbandits.com/series/motorbooks-classic-ser)
- Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 168
- Published: 29 Feb 2004

## About this book

The capture of the Burma Road by the Japanese during World War II forced U.S. airmen to fly hundreds of missions a day into China in an airlift of epic proportions. Having to fly over the towering Himalayan Mountains, the pilots came to know this route as 'flying the hump'. The Hump was a pioneering aviation operation

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