In the course of the Second World Battle, a promise by President Roosevelt to supply provides to nationalist China led to the creation of an ill-fated air provide route from India, throughout a dangerous stretch of the Himalayan foothills often called ‘the hump’. Caroline Alexander tells Elinor Evans concerning the younger American pilots who braved the world’s most harmful skies, going through lethal climate, jungle crashes, and psychological collapse.
Caroline Alexander is the writer of Skies of Thunder: The Lethal World Battle II Mission Over the Roof of the World (Bonnier Books, 2025).
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