[freekitty]

I sure hope he tells the truth as my father flew the Burma Hump in WWII. You did not know if you were going to return everytime you flew.

[Northern Yankee]

My dad flew B-29's out of Guam.

Participated in the last mission of the war.

I grew up around all these great men, and have always been thankful they were there when our country called them.

Blessings and thanks to your dad. My father passed away in 1981. I will always be grateful.

[RightWhale]

• I sure hope he tells the truth

  Expect it since all the talking is done by those who were there and Burns is just the host.

[VOA]

“I sure hope he tells the truth as my father flew the Burma Hump in WWII.
You did not know if you were going to return everytime you flew.”

YEARS ago, I read some of Ernest K. Gann’s books about his time in
early aviation and into flying transport in WWII.

His recounting of some flights (civilian and for the military)
were harrowing...and just short of being “beyond belief”.

IIRC, he talked about some of the nearly psychedelic mental effects
of flying un-pressurized transport version of the B-24.
It’s amazing that any of them returned alive from a string of those
trips.

[shove_it]

fk - did your Dad give you any “short snorters”? My uncle gave me a string of six or seven Chinese bills taped together signed by his flight crews. He was a navigator on C-46’s. I was only seven when he returned from The War. When his son was old enough to appreciate them, I gave them to him and then he to his sons in the same manner.