Imphal, The Hump and Beyond 
Imphal, The Hump and Beyond
U.S.A.A.F. Combat Cargo Groups of the Second World War
3rd Combat Cargo Group, 9th Combat Cargo Squadron
Introduction
Julius Lang, Combat Photographer
| I was a combat
photographer attached to the 3rd Combat Cargo Group, 9th Combat Cargo
Squadron. I hooked up with the outfit at Moran, Assam, India during the battle of
Myiktina, Burma. We were supplying the 36th British Division and
Merrill’s Marauder’s. We moved in January 1945 to Warazup, Burma to an
airstrip there. I set up a photo lab there and flew there on Recon missions.
Then the Mars Task Force took over from Myiktina and we went on south to Lashio.
This was a bloody time and we lost many planes. I consider myself luck to not have
gone down. I had to fly in these C-47s to take photos of the drops and located the
new targets. So I was not on the ground much. From Warazup, we moved to Myiktina and set up at the North airstrip. There were four (4) airfields at Myiktina. I was there until the end of the War and finally left in October 1945 for Uncle Sugar Able, but I didn’t get home until January 1946. By the time I finished my tour in the CBI, I had basically sailed around the world. I had left to go overseas from California and returned by New York. Submitted by Julius Lang, Combat Photographer with the 9th Combat Cargo Squadron. |
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