Word: chungkingers
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The dripping hand of the monsoon lay heavy on northern India and Burma, but the U.S. Ferrying Command flew on, up to Kunming, to Chungking, to many another secret China base.
There was dire need for the risks they ran, and for the trickle of supplies that was slowly becoming a tiny but continuous stream. China was desperate for all they could carry, and for the combat planes and ground crews that other pilots were ferrying over northern Burma. The Chinese...
Pilots of the Chungking Ferry-regulars, veterans of U.S. airlines, reserve officers-had never seen such incredible, sloshing weather. No longer did they sound the old pilots' wheeze, that even the crows were walking. The new one was that the fish were drowning. Near one Ferrying Command base the...
All the trimmings of tough flying went with the water-hail, sleet, air that was rougher than an Oklahoma line squall, terrain on which (said the pilots) a bird would break his legs in a forced landing. Yet the Chungking Ferry ran almost daily, riding instruments, dodging the Jap, who...
But they must get there in a hurry. For China is fast losing her war with Japan, and that means that the United Nations are fast losing Asia. To beat China down, it is not necessary for the Japanese to take every bit of Chinese terrain, or even most of...