B-25s Over Burma
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Tracers appeared as Chet flew his B-25 close to the ground to pitch five-hundred-pound bombs into the railroad bridge sitting amidst Burmese jungle growth. He could never have imagined he would be in this situation three years ago when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Since that time, he had been transformed from bank clerk to bomber pilot about to complete fifty combat missions over China and Burma. His story comes to us through over two hundred letters to his wife that provide an inside view of what it was like to go through the Army's massive Aviation Cadet Program that trained the pilot...
Tracers appeared as Chet flew his B-25 close to the ground to pitch five-hundred-pound bombs into the railroad bridge sitting amidst Burmese jungle growth. He could never have imagined he would be in this situation three years ago when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Since that time, he had been transformed from bank clerk to bomber pilot about to complete fifty combat missions over China and Burma. His story comes to us through over two hundred letters to his wife that provide an inside view of what it was like to go through the Army's massive Aviation Cadet Program that trained the pilots, bombardiers, and navigators needed to fly the thousands of planes being produced to defeat the Axis. Through hard work and some twists of fate, Chet earned his pilot wings and commission before training in the B-25. The book details the airfields, the planes, and training methods. Chet also provided wonderful stories about ferrying a B-25 from Georgia to Africa on the South Atlantic Ferry Route before crossing Africa and the Arabian Sea to India, the entry point for the China-Burma-India Theater, the CBI, often called "the forgotten theater." Four times Chet crossed as a passenger the Himalayan Mountains or The Hump, the most dangerous air route of the war. Monsoon rains in China and lack of supplies coming in from India kept planes on the ground and made flying "fifty" seem almost impossible. Chet flew against targets now long forgotten as is the overlooked heroics of many Allied aviators and soldiers under extremely harsh conditions. Chet survived harrowing missions flying close to the ground to strafe and bomb targets. Through some twists of fate, he survived the war. Many of his friends didn't. Their flight home from China crashed into a mountain.
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