Memoirs of a Hump Pilot Lost in the HIMALAYAS

On the day that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, everything changed for young Bob Binzer. He dreamed of flying, and in the Army Air Corps he finally got his wish. But little did he know he would be assigned to the  the famed 14th Airforce in China, flying C-47s into hostile territory as an unarmed Transport Pilot. 

Take a seat in the cockpit beside him as he navigates one of the most dangerous air routes in the world, the China Hump. In his rare first-person eyewitness account of what it took to survive as a combat pilot in the Himalayas you will join him as he dodges enemy fighters, avoids air raids, crash lands on mountain sides and finally is forced to bail out of a doomed plane behind enemy lines. 

Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with One Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal with Two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre Ribbon with One Bronze Star, the American Defense Ribbon and the rare China War Memorial Medal, Robert Dean Binzer served his country from 1941 - 1945 as a Hump Pilot in the CBI Theatre of World War II. This is his account of his experiences as a young combat pilot in China.