Found this on fb,no date or whereabouts but an interesting photo.As the caption says,this is a game of 'chicken' or shutting down engines one by one and see who has the guts to play it hard.I suppose this 'game' wasn't liked too much by the group commanders and I wonder how it finally worked out for the 'playing' crews.I've never heard or read about this kind of 'letting off steam' ;)

Boys and their toys

When the Japanese closed the Burma Road, the Allies had to fly in supplies by going over the Himalayas ( the tallest mountains in the world ) nicknaming them the Hump.  Among the pilots who flew C-47's over the Hump was cowboy movie star Gene Autry.

Flying Over the Hump

U.S. Army Air Force Lt. Robert L. Hite, blindfolded by his captors, is led from a Japanese transport plane after he and the other seven flyers were flown from Shanghai to Tokyo. Hite was co-pilot of crew 16 (B-25B s/n 40-2268 Bat out of Hell, 34th Bomb Squadron) of the "Doolittle Raiders". After about 45 days in Japan, all eight were taken back to China by ship and imprisoned in Shanghai. On 15 October 1942 three were executed, one died in captivity. The four others, including Hite, were liberated on 20 August 1945.
Lt. Col. Hite passed away 3 years ago tomorrow. There is only one remaining member of the Doolittle Raiders. Lt. Col. Richard Cole is 102 and lives in Comfort, Texas.
taken from fb/I love WW2planes