Tales of the Himalayas

This is a book of letters written to Carl Frey Constein author of the WWII memoir Born to Fly the Hump. Most of the letters are from pilots and crew who also served in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. They tell of crashes and bailouts over the Himalayas and Burma of mammoth thunderstorms and engine failures of bombing runs out of China of airdrops behind enemy lines.Other CBI veterans who served on the ground tell of rugged conditions in the high mountains of China and the dense jung...See More