From: CaptGrumps@aol.com
Date: 6/3/2012 12:10:13 AM
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OLD GUYS WERE NOT BORN OLD!!!!!!!!!!!! Turn your sound on.
Plane Lovers and Pilots will love
this... and so will every red blooded American.rican.
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From: DWSkjerven@aol.com
Date: 5/29/2012 11:16:01 AM
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[905thARS] GREAT STORY here.......flying was tough back then
Rugged mountains yield
hundreds of WWII-era plane crashes of lost "Hump Airmen"
Published
May 24, 2012
Hunting for
hero fliers from lost era
Clayton
Kuhles is bringing home legendary fliers who crashed in the rugged mountains
between China and India
Nothing
James Browne learned in flight school prepared him for “The Hump,” a perilous,
Himalayan no-man’s land that became a graveyard for hundreds of fearless
WWII-era fliers who battled Japanese fighters, impossible weather and a supply
route from hell.
Just 21
years old on Nov. 17, 1942, when he took the co-pilot’s seat of a C-47 bound
for Dinjan , India ,
from Kunming , China ,
Browne was one of hundreds of fearless American fliers who took the infamous
supply route over the Himalayas, ferrying supplies to China U.S.
“He was
deeply aware of the threat to this country even though we were yet to declare
war,” recalled Browne’s cousin, Bob Willett, now 85 and retired in Florida
"I
find a lot of shoes."
- Clayton
Kuhles, self-described "professional adventurer."
Somewhere
high above the Himalayas , the aircraft’s wings
iced over. The best guess is that it stalled out and dropped like a rock, landing
in the rugged mountain jungle, its location a mystery that would endure for
more than 70 years. Browne, who grew up in the Chicago
suburb of Winnetka
The plane
was one of hundreds to go down in the rugged and remote mountain region fliers
dubbed “The Hump” by American fliers who dodged Japanese fighter planes,
steering their unarmed and rickety aircraft for 20-hour stretches with
unreliable instruments in winds that could reach 200 mph. Experts believe more
than 700 planes crashed trying to surmount the Hump, making the Himalayan
region an inaccessible tomb of legendary fliers and rusted fuselages.
Other names
earned by the dangerous route, from northeastern India ,
over Burma and into western China
"I'm
so impressed by the sheer courage of those Hump airmen, flying their almost
suicidal missions over the Himalayas, while knowing all the time that the odds
were heavily against their safe return," said Clayton Kuhles, a
self-described “professional adventurer” from Arizona who has made it his cause
to seek out crash sites and bring closure to the families of the lost fliers.
"In
fact, many of their buddies never did return, but simply vanished up there in
those rugged and remote mountains," he added. "They were good
men."
In eight
separate trips, Kuhles has located 22 crash sites and helped account for some
193 U.S. India
“He
could’ve been B.S.ing me in hopes of racking up a few extra days of guide fees
but, in my gut, I knew he was probably telling the truth,” recalled Kuhles.
The tale
intrigued Kuhles, and launched him on a crusade he says has already cost him
$100,000 of his own money. Sometimes, the only sign of crew left in the tangled
metal is a dogtag, a few scattered bones or the garments worn by long-dead
pilots and crewmen.
“I find a
lot of shoes,” Kuhles said.
Among the U.S. airmen Kuhles has accounted for is Browne,
who had learned to fly at the Riverside
Academy in Gainesville , Ga. U.S. still not
engaged in the war, the young flier signed on with the legendary English Royal
Air Force where he flew non-combat missions in Britain
Initially,
the lift was handled by the China National Aviation Corp., a quasi-airline in
which PanAmerican Airways owned a 45 percent interest and which was under
contract with the U.S. Army to ferry supplies to China India , Burma and China
Browne had
been flying missions for China
“They never
recovered, or became the people they were before,” he recalled. “It would have
been easier if he was killed in action, but because he was MIA, there was no
closure, and it made the grieving process continuous. It never stopped.
“They
expected him to walk in the back door one day and resume his life and be their
son again.”
The death
of an older cousin whom he idolized was “like an open wound” for Willett, who
joined the China National Aviation Corp. Association, a collection of former
pilots who had once flown The Hump. He met Kuhles at a 2005 reunion in San Francisco
“All we
knew at that point was the plane took off Kunming
and was headed back to India
Working off
the last transmission from the plane, Kuhles eventually zeroed in on the summit
ridge of Cangshan Mountain in Burma
After
climbing 14,000 feet, and being abandoned by all his guides and porters except
a 17-year-old boy who spoke no English, “the impenetrable wall of bamboo, as
tough as iron and sharp as razor-blades” yielded to Kuhles' machete. Gleaming
in the sun was the wreckage of the C-47 transport plane in which Dean and his
crew had been entombed.
“It was
like stepping into an ancient Egyptian (pyramid),” recalled Kuhles. “I knew it
was the plane I was looking for. Finally, Dean and the others would have a
chance to come home.”
Finding
service members missing in action, including nearly 75,000 from World War II,
officially falls to the Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC).
The command requires sound security, medical evacuation, communications and
transport to conduct searches, something that has been impossible in recent
years due to diplomatic strain. Still, as many as 30 sites already investigated
or excavated in 2003 and 2004, when the U.S. was forced to pull out, will
likely be revisited under new terms negotiated between the State Department and
Myanmar.
Kuhles,
meanwhile, carefully documents his finds, but does not have the resources to
recover planes. On rare occasions, he has brought back the possessions or
remains of fliers, but is wary because of international laws prohibiting the
unauthorized transport of human remains.
But for
Willett, Kuhles brought back plenty from his trip to The Hump.
“I know
what happened to Jimmy,” he said. “I know where he is, who is with him.”
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