File photo of C-47 air freighter. [Photo: china.com.cn]

A ceremony is set to take place in just over a couple of weeks to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the disbanding of the India-China Division of the US Army Air Force.

This is the division which flew "The Hump" to supply Chinese forces battling the Japanese invasion during World War II.

"The Hump" is the name pilots used to describe their flight over the Himalayas from bases in eastern India and today's Myanmar into southeastern China.

To commemorate the years-long effort, a C-47 which flew during the War is going to make the trip, once-again, from Kokata, India to Guangxi's capital, Guilin, on November 17th.

Jame Whitehead is the head of the "Flying Tigers" historical organization.

He suggests the ceremonial flight might help take some of the tensions out of the current ties between the US and China.

"We fought there. We had tremendous relationship, trust with Chinese people, and respect. That's the only way we have relationship is through trust and respect. And it happened. That's the foundation we should build on today,"

The US Army Air Force used around 22-hundred planes to fly over "The Hump" between 1941 and the end of the war in 1945 to supply Chinese forces.

Close to 600 of the planes never made it back, leaving over 16-hundred dead or missing.