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jake sarks who was my roommate who arrived in india around the first of april and he was in another young man, paul conroy flew a couple of missions before. jacob was the last airplane out of there. i think most of you heard that they loaded 71 passengers on there. when they arrived in india, there were 72. >> it wasn't magic. it was a baby. >> the first hump flight incidentally was flown by robert oolde in early april of 1942. do you know what they carried? >> they carried fuel to china for the doolittle. >> was he with the 14th or not? >> do you know? we'll get back with you. >> can i ask another question. what was the casualty rate of the pilots that flew the hump? >> i'm sorry. i don't know. i know it was very high. >> okay. thank you. >> i do think that i saw a figure of about 600 aircraft and crews went down over the hump. at one point it was more dangerous to fly the hump than it was a round trip out of berlin to england. >> well they are flying c 47s in planes that won't go as high as the mountains with the world's worst weather with no good weather reporting stations. very few na
jake sarks who was my roommate who arrived in india around the first of april and he was in another young man, paul conroy flew a couple of missions before. jacob was the last airplane out of there. i think most of you heard that they loaded 71 passengers on there. when they arrived in india, there were 72. >> it wasn't magic. it was a baby. >> the first hump flight incidentally was flown by robert oolde in early april of 1942. do you know what they carried? >> they carried...
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jake sarks who was my roommate who arrived in india around the first of april and he was in another young man, paul conroy flew a couple of missions before. jacob was the last airplane out of there. i think most of you heard that they loaded 71 passengers on there. when they arrived in india, there were 72. >> it wasn't magic. it was a baby. >> the first hump flight incidentally was flown by robert oolde in early april of 1942. do you know what they carried? >> they carried fuel to china for the doolittle. >> was he with the 14th or not? >> do you know? we'll get back with you. >> can i ask another question. what was the casualty rate of the pilots that flew the hump? >> i'm sorry. i don't know. i know it was very high. >> okay. thank you. >> i do think that i saw a figure of about 600 aircraft and crews went down over the hump. at one point it was more dangerous to fly the hump than it was a round trip out of berlin to england. >> well they are flying c 47s in planes that won't go as high as the mountains with the world's worst weather with no good weather reporting stations. very few na
jake sarks who was my roommate who arrived in india around the first of april and he was in another young man, paul conroy flew a couple of missions before. jacob was the last airplane out of there. i think most of you heard that they loaded 71 passengers on there. when they arrived in india, there were 72. >> it wasn't magic. it was a baby. >> the first hump flight incidentally was flown by robert oolde in early april of 1942. do you know what they carried? >> they carried...
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jake sarks who was my roommate who arrived in india around the first of april and he was in another young man, paul conroy flew a couple of missions before. jacob was the last airplane out of there. i think most of you heard that they loaded 71 passengers on there. when they arrived in india, there were 72. >> it wasn't magic. it was a baby. >> the first hump flight incidentally was flown by robert oolde in early april of 1942. do you know what they carried? >> they carried fuel to china for the doolittle. >> was he with the 14th or not? >> do you know? we'll get back with you. >> can i ask another question. what was the casualty rate of the pilots that flew the hump? >> i'm sorry. i don't know. i know it was very high. >> okay. thank you. >> i do think that i saw a figure of about 600 aircraft and crews went down over the hump. at one point it was more dangerous to fly the hump than it was a round trip out of berlin to england. >> well they are flying c 47s in planes that won't go as high as the mountains with the world's worst weather with no good weather reporting stations. very few na
jake sarks who was my roommate who arrived in india around the first of april and he was in another young man, paul conroy flew a couple of missions before. jacob was the last airplane out of there. i think most of you heard that they loaded 71 passengers on there. when they arrived in india, there were 72. >> it wasn't magic. it was a baby. >> the first hump flight incidentally was flown by robert oolde in early april of 1942. do you know what they carried? >> they carried...