Word: humps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's Biggest. When Mike Mansfield left the U.S., he felt sure that China's biggest problem was supply. He stayed long enough to change his mind. He rode the unfinished Ledo-Burma road, learned that supplies were being flown over the Hump at the monthly rate (for November) of 34,929 tons, and was told that trickle would be upped sharply with the road's completion, expected soon. In Chungking and elsewhere he talked with U.S. generals, Chinese leaders. The more he saw and heard, the more Mike Mansfield was convinced that China's gravest...
Starved of gasoline and everything else that an air force needs, because it all had to be flown over the Hump, the 20th Bomber Command in China and India had run up, by year's end, a tally of 23 assaults on Japan and Jap arsenals in Asia. The bombs dropped totaled about 5,000 tons-no more than a single major R.A.F. strike over Europe's shorter hauls. But in those tentative stabs, the Superfort flyers had learned to know their planes-and the Japs' defenses...
...heavy-burdened Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer promised more aid to China. Hump-flown supplies have constantly increased. Means of distributing them more rapidly to front-line Chinese troops have been established through a new, topnotch supply organization. Wedemeyer began to surround himself with staff officers of a caliber not available to displaced General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell in China's earlier crises. For China's war effort, there was new life, new hope and heaven-sent weather...
...valiant, skillful flyers of Burma's treacherous Hump route were not all heroes. Last week the Army ruefully revealed that some had been low-grade scoundrels. Working with experienced Chinese, Burmese and Indian gangs, they had been smuggling gold, jewelry, drugs, arms and other contraband from India to China for more than two years, had piled up personal profits amounting to more than $4 million...
...vast racket did not by any means involve the great majority of Army personnel engaged in Hump operations (although the Army's failure to give names and figures did not help to correct that impression). But the guilty minority included scores of officers and enlisted men, plus some employes of the China National Aviation Corp., former Flying Tigers, Red Cross workers, and miscellaneous U.S. and British technical and business representatives...