India paid tribute to the hundreds of US servicemen killed during World War II with the opening of a museum near its strategic border with China honouring the dramatic Himalayan airlift dubbed "The Hump".

• Telling the story of how Allied pilots flew the perilous route to supply Chinese forces, it includes 80-year-old rusting wreckage and machine guns of some of the 590 planes that crashed into the jungle hills and jagged mountains of Arunachal Pradesh.
• Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu said it showcased "the remnants of aircraft that went missing", as he inaugurated "The Hump WWII Museum" alongside the US ambassador, Eric Garcetti in the town of Pasighat.
• Pilots nicknamed the dangerous route over the ice-covered eastern Himalayan mountains "The Hump", a giant airlift to supply Chinese troops battling Japanese forces after they cut off the overland route through Burma, today's Myanmar.