Chronology of World War II

Sunday, November 12


Fueling a CNAC C-47


Fueling a CNAC C-47
Fueling a CNAC C-47 ar Suifu, China (photo dated November 12, 1944 , courtesy www.cnac.org ). The pilots carried the 55 gallons fuel drums with them over the Hump on the way out so to have enough fuel to make it back home again. The re-fueling was awkward, first poured in the square 5 gallons cans, carried up the ladder and poured into the wing tanks. Note the CNAC roundel on the C-47 in the backdrop. Those aircraft all belonged to the China National Aviation Corporation, co-owned by Pan American