Original U.S. WWII CBI Hump Pilot Lt. Bill Mumford Class A Uniform Jacket

Original Item: One-of-a-kind. This is the named Class A four pocket uniform jacket of known Hump pilot Lieutenant Willard “Bill” Mumford. Multiple interviews via email with Bill before his passing in 2000 have been published on the wonderful website The Hump Flyer by Tony Strotmanand and Bill’s interviews can be found at this link http://www.usaaf-in-cbi.com/humpflyer/story_will.htm The Hump, as it was dubbed by the pilots of the China- Burma-India Theatre during World War 2, is that monsterous range of mountains that contains Everest, K2 and some others.  It stretches across between China, India and Burma. The C-47 (or Dakota) was not designed for that duty. With a full cargo load we did well to get to 14,000 feet and mountains we flew past went between 15,000 and 29,000 feet !! I am a veteran of WW II, of the Air Transport Command and one of the pilots that flew the Hump to carry supplies (gas, bombs, ammunition, etc.) to Yankai and a number of other bases in China. A B-25 squadron w