Memoirs of a Hump Pilot Lost in the HIMALAYAS
The Able Queen
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.