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...saga of the Hump was ending. This week, after three years of peril-strewn operation over the Himalayas into China, the most hazardous air route in the world practically went out of business...
Until next spring there would be daily scheduled flights from India and Burma to Chungking and beyond, but now they could follow a more southerly course over the "low-Hump," by way of Myit-kyina. By year's end, Air Forces personnel in the India-China Division of the Air Transport Command will be down to around 9,000, from a peak of 35,000 (including 4,712 pilots...
Unofficial estimates were that 3,000 Allied transport and tactical aircraft had been lost among those jagged peaks. But for this price, the U.S. had backed China (and U.S. units in China) with invaluable aid: 78.000 tons went over the Hump in the peak month of July...
...been a top trouble-shooter for the Army's Air Transport Command-and boss of the Hump lifeline into China-last week cheerfully took on more trouble. With the store creases still fresh in his mufti, tall, tough Brigadier General Thomas Hardin went to work as executive vice president of TACA Airways' 13,000 miles of loosely knit air routes south of the border. His first move was to hire four of his top-ranking buddies in A.T.C. to help him run TACA...
...Africa's dreaded dust storms, 2) at night. He did both, stringing radio beacons across thousands of miles of darkest Africa. Result: operating efficiency shot up over 300%- and the accident rate went down. Then he was handed a bigger job : running the lifeline to China over the Hump. There, as in Africa, the big reason for not flying was "weather." So Hardin drafted a curt order: "Effective immediately, there will be no more weather over the Hump...