{"id":9874666,"date":"2026-08-06T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=9874666"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:02:57","slug":"the-hump-airlift-himalayas-cbi-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/the-hump-airlift-himalayas-cbi-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hump: The Deadliest Airlift of the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>There was a stretch of sky between India and China so lethal that the men who flew it said you could navigate by the wrecks below. They called it the Hump &mdash; and for three years, an unbroken stream of transport planes crossed the highest mountains on Earth, in the worst weather in the world, to keep China in the war.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was the first great strategic airlift in history, and one of the deadliest flying jobs of the Second World War.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#333\">Datos r\u00e1pidos<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Qu\u00e9<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#333\">Allied aerial supply route over the eastern Himalayas<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Ruta<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#333\">Assam, India to Kunming, China (~500+ miles)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Years<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#333\">April 1942 - November 1945<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Aeronave<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#333\">C-47 Skytrain, C-46 Commando, later C-54<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Delivered<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#333\">More than 650,000 tons of cargo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Costo<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#333\">Roughly 600 aircraft and over 1,600 airmen lost<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why fly over the roof of the world?<\/h2>\r\n<p>When Japan cut the Burma Road in 1942, China was severed from overland supply. The only way left to deliver fuel, weapons and ammunition to Chiang Kai-shek&rsquo;s armies &mdash; and to the American airmen fighting in China &mdash; was straight over the mountains. So the U.S. Army Air Forces&rsquo; Air Transport Command built an aerial bridge across the Himalayas and never let it close.<\/p>\r\n<p>The route threaded between peaks 15,000 to 20,000 feet high, through monsoon storms, severe icing, and winds that could top 100 miles per hour. Crews flew overloaded aircraft with poor charts, almost no navigation aids, and little weather information. Many pilots arrived in India with no training on the big Curtiss C-46 Commando they were about to fly across the tallest mountains on the planet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c8_nzsgfLo0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>Bad weather, not the enemy, was the great killer. Air Transport Command&rsquo;s commander, Brigadier General William H. Tunner, would later run the Berlin Airlift &mdash; and he never forgot the Hump.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;The weather on the Hump changed from minute to minute, from mile to mile. Flying the Hump was considered as hazardous as flying a combat mission over Germany.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Brig. Gen. William H. Tunner<\/strong> &mdash; Commander, Air Transport Command<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=342822852  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:7TLF.cae3\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/c-46-over-the-hump-himalayas.jpg\" alt=\"A C-46 over the Hump\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A C-46 crosses the Hump between India and China. Crews said the route was marked by the wreckage of those who came before. Photo: U.S. Air Force \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Aluminum Trail<\/h2>\r\n<p>So many aircraft went down along the route that it earned a grim nickname: the Aluminum Trail, for the glint of crashed transports scattered through the jungles and gorges below. To this day, wrecks and the remains of missing airmen are still being found in the mountains of northern Burma and western China.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;I seem to be lost, and there&rsquo;s six inches of ice on my control surfaces.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>A Hump pilot, recalled by survivor Murray Scott<\/strong> &mdash; the &ldquo;Night of a Thousand Maydays,&rdquo; January 6, 1945<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1731408042  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:3nnP.cae4\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/curtiss-c-46-commando.jpg\" alt=\"Curtiss C-46 Commando\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Curtiss C-46 Commando became the workhorse of the Hump, its powerful engines better suited to the thin air at altitude. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>The danger was real even for observers. In August 1943, CBS war correspondent Eric Sevareid had to bail out of a stricken C-46 over the Naga hills of Burma and was rescued only after days on the ground. He had come to report on the airlift; instead he became part of its story.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hwESWIGYvfc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The bridge that held<\/h2>\r\n<p>By 1945 the Hump was delivering enormous tonnages every month, a feat of organisation that proved a sustained airlift could supply an entire theatre of war. That lesson went straight into the Berlin Airlift three years later, run by the same Tunner. The men who flew the Hump paid a heavy price &mdash; but they kept China supplied, and they wrote the playbook for every great airlift that followed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t3QjmlxysMw\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;color:#777;font-size:14px\">Sources: HistoryNet, Warfare History Network, Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine, Library of Congress Veterans History Project, Wikipedia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Publicaciones relacionadas<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/junkers-ju-52-tante-ju-switzerland-ju-air\/\">Auntie Ju: The Tante Ju\u2019s Swiss Farewell<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/t-1a-jayhawk-final-air-to-air-vance-afb-retirement-2026\/\">One Last Photo Before the Boneyard<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a stretch of sky between India and China so lethal that the men who flew it said you could navigate by the wrecks below. 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