[oldvirginian]

“My dad was a Hump Pilot in the China Burma India Campaign.”

Another job that required fierce inner resolve and balls of steel. Many an air crew perished in crashes flying The Hump.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Most days, dad spent the night in India with locals available to load his airplane with munitions for troops battling the Japanese in China.
There was a particularly arrogant Nationalist Chinese General in India who had acquired a baby grand piano, probably from a British family living there.
He insisted that my dad carry the piano to China but Dad refused.
One morning he arrived at the air field with his co-pilot, only to find the piano had already been loaded aboard.
Saying nothing, the men took off and circled the airfield once. At 650 feet, the cargo door came open and the piano went out.
Nothing was ever said...