[Eric in the Ozarks]

Thanks for looking up Walter Scherer and filling in a bit of his history.

My dad was born in 1906, thus too young for WW 1 and almost too old for WW 2. Yet, he volunteered for service in the AAF, flying C-46s over the Hump in the China-Burma-India Campaign.

Japan had over one million troops on the Asian mainland, taking large swaths of territory from the Brits and French who had colonized the nations. Sadly, we sowed the seeds of Europe's blunder in SE Asia and another 58,000 + young men were lost, like Walter Scherer...

[dsc]

“flying C-46s over the Hump in the China-Burma-India Campaign.”

I’ve heard you could navigate that route by the wreckage of downed aircraft.