Owens

1st Lt. Phillips Gardner Huffman was lost on a flight on March 21, 1943, over the Hump on B-24 "The Pregnant Swan," #42-40069, while enroute from Pandaveswar, India to Kunming, China. During the flight there was no radio "advice" sent out from the crew indicating any trouble. The craft simply disappeared on this, their first, flight over the treacherous altitudes...

KUNMING, CHINA--22 June 45... Every Friday the "Trojan" C-54 that travels non-stop from Calcutta to Kunming, China, arrives at the airbase bringing the copies of the "China Lantern" China Theater Newspaper. L to R: T/3 Andrew G. Hoover, Theater Information Education, Pfc David Holman, Omaha, Nebrl, ATC Flight Clerk, unload the papers from the "Trojan". Photo by Cpl J. J...