It was January 25, 1944. The Allies were preparing for their
seaborne invasion of continental Europe and German
armies were locked
in a titanic struggle with the Soviet Union. Closer home, the Imperial
Japanese
army had cut off the Burma Road leaving the Allies with no
option but to resupply China through an
air bridge over the eastern
Himalayas into India. So the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
bomber from the US Army Air Corps’s (USAAC) 14th Air Force which took off from
Kunming in southern China that morning, was to pick up vitally needed
arms and ammunition for Chiang Kai-Shek’s armies from Chabua in Assam
nearly 800 km away. The iconic fourengined bomber doubling up
as a transport
aircraft was dubbed ‘Hot as Hell’ and the aircraft’s
eponymous mascot: a crouching nude blonde was painted under the
cockpit.
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