Hell Is So Green: Search and Rescue over the Hump in World War II
Автор:Lt. William Diebold Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 272 ISBN: 0762772751 Lt. William Diebold served in the Army’s Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II and never fired a weapon in battle. Like many men who flew the eastern Himalayas, he never saw on-the-ground combat, but he fought bravely by saving lives. Flyers who crossed the Hump to keep the allied armies in China supplied with food, fuel, and weapons against Japana??preventing it from concentrating its full power in the Pacifica??often flew in zero-visibility, sometimes crashing into mountains or falling prey to Japanese Zero attacks. Those pilots who survived, Bill Diebold rescued.A In Hell Is So Green, he vividly describes the heat and stink of the jungle; the vermin, lice, and leeches; the towering mountains and roaring rivers. Rich with war slang, wisecracks, and old-fashioned phrases, his story reverberates with authenticity and represents the stories of so many men that have never been told. After the author’s early death, the manuscript lay untouched in an attic...
