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'''''La Joroba''''' es el nombre que los pilotos Aliados dieron durante la [[Segunda Guerra Mundial]] a la zona oriental del [[Himalaya]] sobre la cual volaron entre [[India]] y [[China]] para reabastecer a los [[Tigres Voladores]] y al [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Gobierno Chino]] de [[Chiang Kai-shek]].
The pilots started flying The Hump in Abril de 1942 when the Japanese blocked the [[Carretera de Birmania]], and they continued to do so hasta 1945 cuando se abrió la
Flying over the Hump era muy arriesgado. The air route led first over the Himalayan foothills and finally to the mountains, between north Burma and west China, where violent turbulence and terrible weather was standard. Transport planes flew around the clock from any of thirteen bases in northeastern India, landing about 800 kilometres away at one of seis aeródromos chinos. Some crews flew as many as three round trips every day. Due to the isolated region, parts and supplies to keep the planes flying were in short supply, and flight crews were often sent into the foothills to gather up the debris from previous crashes for parts to repair the remaining units in the squadron.
The area is cut up by huge parallel [[gorge]]s of the upper parts of some of the big rivers of
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Aviation equipment was ferried to China across the Himalayas, along the [[airbridge (logistics)|air bridge]] which received the name the "Joroba de Camello" (because the relief of the route was like the side view silueta de un camello). In early May the Japanese seized three key settled points in Burma which cut across the Burma Road. To maintain uninterrupted supply to China of strategic materials requested by the Kuomintang government, the U.S. leaders agreed to organize
Entre [[India]], [[Birmania]], y [[China]] there began to operate an puente aéreo sin precedentes. In the west, the Hump began in India from a series of airfields strung out along the Assam section of the [[Northeast Indian Railways during World War II|north east Indian railways]],<ref>William Slim. ''Defeat into Victory'', Chapter IX: The Foundations</ref> and passed over the mountains of [[Yongnan]] and a series of spines to [[Sichuan]] Province. After the opening of the air route, it became for the Chinese una auténtica "carretera de la vida." The quantity of cargo transported reached 7000 toneladas al mes. According to the reckoning of the Chinese, from May 1942 to September 1945, a total of 650,000 tons were transported, of which Chinese pilots accounted for 75,000 tons (about 12%). Also, along the air bridge 33,400 people were transported in both directions. The summary reached 1.5 million flight hours.
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