Burma Road
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The Burma Road was a road linking Burma with southwest China. Its terminals were Lashio, Burma, in the south and Kunming, China, the capital of Yunnan province in the north. It was built in 1937–1938
Burmese and Chinese laborers using hand tools to reopen the Burma Road in 1944
The Hump
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The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the
Burma Road
…the Burma Road for three months. The Japanese overran Burma in 1942, closing the Burma Road. The Allies thereafter supplied China by air, flying "over The Hump" from India, which initially proved fatally dangerous and woefully inadequate, leading U.S. army general Joseph Stilwell to obsessively pursue the goal…
Allied lines of communication in Southeast Asia (1942–43). The Hump airlift is shown at upper right.
C-47 Skytrain
Meili Snow Mountains, prominent landmark on the high Hump
Chabua Airfield. The white line at the top is the Brahmaputra River.