Burma Road and the Hump Photographs | World War II Database


Burmese and Chinese laborers using basic hand tools to create the Burma Road out of thick forests on steep hillsides and swampy flatlands, 1937	C-46 Commando being fueled for flight 'over the hump' from Chabua, India to Kunming, China, 1943. Note 3 blade props of early C-46 models	Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft flying over 'the hump' from Burma to China over the eastern Himalayas, 1942-1943	C-46 Commando aircraft flying over the Himalaya Mountains, 1943-1945

Curtiss C-46 Commando flying over “The Hump” between China, Northern Burma (now Myanmar), and eastern India, 1944.	Jeep working the Ledo Road assigned to the pipeline project that built a fuel pipeline to China alongside the Ledo Road, 1944	Maintenance work at the Kunming airfield in Yunnan Province, China, circa 1944	The 24-Turns section of the Kunming-Chungking (Chongqing) Road in China climbs 650 vertical feet using 1.8 miles of road to cover one-quarter of that distance laterally, Guizhou Province, China, 1944, photo 1 of 2

The 24-Turns section of the Kunming-Chungking (Chongqing) Road in China climbs 650 vertical feet using 1.8 miles of road to cover one-quarter of that distance laterally, Guizhou Province, China, 1944, photo 2 of 2	Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft taking a break from flying “The Hump” at Chabua Field, India, circa Feb 1944	General Joseph Stilwell holding a roadside conference with Brigadier General Lewis Pick whose engineers were instrumental in the completion of the Burma Road, Burma, 1944.	Chinese children celebrating on top of a Jeep, circa 1945; the occasion was either the opening of Ledo Road or victory over Japan

Civilians of Kunming, Yunnan Province, China celebrating the arrival of the first convoy across the Ledo Road, early 1945	Late version of the Mile Zero signpost of the Stilwell Road at Ledo, Assam, India, 1945	Sign post at Mong Yu, Burma (now Myanmar) at the Chinese border marking the joining of the newer Ledo Road with the previous Burma Road, 1945	The first convoy to use new Ledo Rd at Mile Zero marker at the railhead of Ledo, India, Jan 12, 1945. The Ledo Road connected with the old Burma Road as part of the effort to truck supplies to Kunming, China

American- and Chinese-manned M4 Sherman tanks on the Burma Road, circa 1945	US Army truck convoy on the Ledo Road/Stilwell Road, Burma, 1945	An African-American US Army soldier and a Chinese soldier placing the flag of their ally on the front of a jeep that was about to drive onto the Ledo Road/Stilwell Road, 6 Feb 1945