JOHN D. PLATING, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, teaches history at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A transport pilot with combat experience, he is the author of a number of articles that have been published in Air Power History, Air Force Journal of Logistics, and elsewhere.
"This scholarly study, reflecting the author's wide research on the
subject at all levels, including the strategic, convincingly
demonstrates how the original "Hump" operation expanded from a show
of American political support for China to a major supply effort
for American forces in China for B-29 operations against Japan and
preparations for a final assault on the Japanese mainland.
Plating's work represents an original contribution to the
literature that is certain to become the definitive work on the
subject."—Bill Bartsch, author, Every Day a Nightmare: American
Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942
|"John Plating's The Hump is an intelligent, groundbreaking work
that is sure to become essential reading for those interested in
the history of China and the Second World War."—Robert von Maier,
editor-in-chief, Global War Studies
|"Author John D. Plating, an air force officer and former transport
pilot, has written not only a first-rate history, but the first
truly comprehensive examination of the 1942-45 efforts to maintain
an aerial supply channel to China. . . Plating's richly researched
and rewarding pages do not neglect the experiences of the flight
crews,. . . He displays a mastery of the many-layered agendas of
British, American, and Chinese actors in the drama." — Richard
Frank, World War II|"The Hump was an enjoyable read, and Plating
has produced the best single-volume study of the Hump airlift
available."--Jeffery S. Underwood, Military History of the West
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