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I had the pleasure of exchanging BBS messages some years ago with an old-time flyer who flew DC-2's "over the hump" in Asia - taking passengers from Karachi, Pakistan to China during WWII.  I've reproduced the text of a couple of messages from "George Joubin", the pilot...

August 16, 1990: Messages were originally posted to the "BC-CHAT" BBS message conference by George Joubin of Nanaimo, BC.

I started flying at 15 years of age.  I became a pilot in the Air Force and maintained my wings even though I was primarily a scientific officer working on such programs as the Atomic program and Space program.  As a scientific offic

er I worked closely with Dwight Eisenhower, both as General setting up Shape and Nato and as President of the US.  When I left the military I went to work for a while with United Airlines as an Instructor Captain, until a diagnoses of terminal cancer grounded me.

As to Northern BC and the Yukon, for a short time I flew fighters to the Russians from the manufacturing plants in the US to Siberia.  My route was from Great Falls, Montana, through Calgary, Edmonton under normal flight rules but then changed to the "bush" pilot as I flew contact up the Alaskan Highway with stops at Watson Lake, Dawson Creek, Tannacross, Alaska and on into Fairbanks.  Then to Anchorage, and out the chain of islands to Siberia.