Allied pilots flew treacherous flights over the Himalayas to provide supplies to Chang Kai Shek’s army, and the author of a new book describes the mission.
The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World At seventeen thousand feet and halfway from India to China, pilot Joseph Dechene had lost both his aircraft’s engines to ice. His lumbering C-46 cargo plane was now a glider. With white, ice-laden clouds...