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...last week U.S. and British airmen were confident that they were over the hump. With the help of reserves built up during summer months, Berlin now had stockpiles of food and fuel which could keep the city going for a month with no resupply at all. Despite the weather, and wholesale predictions of a prohibitive accident rate, only three U.S. planes had cracked up so far this month. All crewmen escaped without fatal injuries (though three British airmen died in one R.A.F. crash...
...open road by a huge, red-cheeked adjutant who swung down from a truck loaded with heavily armed soldiers. He would escort us to the command post of Lieut. General Li Mi, commander of the Thirteenth Army Group. He pointed north toward a hill rising like the hump of a razorback hog out of the fields. The truck wallowed off the road through a shallow ditch and followed a telephone wire stretched across the parched, lumpy land, already sown with winter wheat...
...airmen have considered this possibility since the China Hump operation and the airborne Burma jungle campaign. Perhaps Russian strategists, who have consistently underestimated air power, are beginning to get the point...
...economy forever operating like an inchworm--with a hump for the 'boom' and a glide for the 'bust,'" Porter declared...
...With added planes, however, and ideal weather conditions, it would not be impossible to lay down 2,000 tons of food a day on Berlin's Tempelhof and Gatow airfields. In July 1945, the U.S. Air Transport Command flew 71,000 tons of cargo over the Hump into China...