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...China Problem. For this and for future raids, the worst problem for the B-29s now is not Japs but supply. All bombs, gas and technical equipment must be flown in over the "Hump" route from India. Planes bringing in gas use several times the amount of their payload, just to get it there; the B-29s have proved to be their own most efficient tank cars. How much they can haul, and how often they can crank up new raids, now rates a spot well up on the crowded list of things the Japs must worry about...
...these soldiers, and their millions of buddies on troop transports, in Italian barber shops, in transport planes going over the Hump, in the dreary routine of guarded life in enemy prison camps, the invasion was a shot in the arm. Their eyes, too, were on the Normandy coast...
...show had its own casualties. Last December Major Robinson was killed in a plane accident while flying over the Hump. "It was bad. . . . We felt we just couldn't play-how could we be funny, and laugh, on the same field where the Major had died? . . . That was our first baptism of 'the show must go on' routine." After the death of Major Robinson, the new C.O. was Lieut. Jack Yule, a former professional actor (in Hump-Happy, he works the spotlight...
Last year, at a jungle base of the Air Transport Command far up in Assam province on the Burma border, a group of soldiers whipped together a vaudeville show. It was named from a form of war neurosis peculiar to the region where the hazards of flying the Hump are in every man's mind-Hump-Happy. Last week Hump-Happy was on tour. From its purely local start, it had humped through hundreds of performances on the jungle circuit. From Burma's border to the African Gold Coast it is the Army's No. 1 entertainment...
...When Hump-Happy was first tried out, men came out of the fever-ridden jungles to see it. Hump-Happy's hairy-chested girls and hairy-chested jokes hit them just right. Within a few weeks Hump-Happy went on tour, has been on the move ever since...