Burma - Book advice please

[Amrit1]

Thank you Jim.

I can get rather obssesive about a subject

I've been looking at Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units And Their Aces (which also includes work by Shore), and it's definately on my wish list.

However, I've heard mixed reviews about the Naval book (partly due to poor translations and partly the actual content) - but if you think it's worth having, then I shall have another look.

I have Carey's book on the Vultee (a must for anyone interested in the RIAF during the war) - an excellent read, and one I use constantly to defend the poor Vultee's reputatuion on other forums!

And I shall certainly look into the other books in your list.

Cheers
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[DavidIsby]

I would add The Friendly Firm, the history of 194 Squadron RAF.


Don't forget the air war over Burma was also waged by the USAAF!

Wesley Craven & James Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II, Washington, 1983, Air Force Historical Agency reprint, vols. 4- 6.
Dr. Joe G. Taylor, Air Supply in the Burma Campaign. USAF Historical Study no, 75, Maxwell AFB, 1957, USAF Historical Division.
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Pacific War, Military Analysis Division. Air Operations in the China, Burma India Theatre, (Report 67), 1946.
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Pacific War, Military Analysis Division. The Air Transport Command in the War Against Japan, (Report 68), 1946.
Memoirs
James F. Brewer, Harry Howton and Janet M. Theirs, eds. China Airlift – the Hump. Paducah, 1980, Turner.
Dr. Carl Frey Constein, ed., Tales of the Himalayas, Bloomington IN, 2002, 1stBooks.
Jeff Ethell & Don Downie, Flying the Hump, St. Paul, 2004, Motorbooks.
Rudolph F. Gaum, Experiences with the ATC, Gaithersburg, 2005, self-published.
John W. Gordon, Wings from Burma to the Himalayas, Memphis, 1989, Global Press
Otha Spencer, Flying the Hump, College Station, 1992, Texas A&M.
William H. Tunner, Over the Hump, Washington, 1985, Office of Air Force History.
George Wamsley, American Fly-Boy, NY, 1993, Vantage.

Edwin Lee White, Ten Thousand Tons by Christmas, St. Petersburg FL, 1974, Valkriye.

Monroe Withers, A Texan in the CBI, Green Valley, 1993, Green Valley Press.
Unit Histories
Lewis C. Burwell, Scrapbook: A Pictorial and Historical Record of the Deeds, Exploits, Adventures, Travels and Life of the 27th TCS for the Year 1944, Charlotte, 1947, Lassiter Press.
Hugh B. Cave, Wings Across the World, [ATC], NY, 1945, Dodd Mead..
John R.T. Jones, Pictorial History of the 322nd Troop Carrier Squadron, c1982, self-published.
Carmen Kight, There’s Rocks in Those Clouds, [433rd TCG], Lakeland FL, 2005, self-published.
Oliver LaFarge, The Eagle in the Egg, [ATC] Boston, 1949, Houghton Mifflin.
Charles F. Leons, History and Reminiscences (55th TCS), 2002, self-published.
John G. Martin, It Began at Imphal: The Combat Cargo Story, Manhattan KS, 1988, Sunflower University Press.
John G. Martin, Through Heaven’s Gate to Shanghai [10th CCS], Ashland KY, 1993, self-published.
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W.E. Smith, 2nd Troop Carrier Squadron, AAF, CBI, WWII, 1987, Cullman AL, Gregath.
R.D. Van Wagner, Any Place, Any Time, Any Where, [1st ACG] Atglen PA, 1998, Schiifer.
Gerald A. White Jr. The Great Snafu Fleet [1st CCS], 2000, Xlibris.