Keeping China alive! Tales of "Flying the Hump." Japan's successful invasion of Burma closed this last route (the Burma Road) for lend-lease aid into China. China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) developed and pioneered routes over the Hump from India to China but it fell to the US Army Air Forces to use them to supply the remaining Chinese army. Americans quickly established 'the Hump,' an airlift of troops and supplies over the Himalayas designed to keep Chiang Kai-shek's army in the fight. 1950 The Korean War 1953 "In the truck full of wounded they first tried to burn the truck and shoot us if we tried to get out but it was too cold. They couldn't get the fire started so they started shooting them one at a time. "I'm watching and I felt proud. I get to fight with these guys. One by one they are taking their shot. There was no shouting, no yelling, no pleading for help, nothing. Just look at their executioner and take their shot. I pushed my