The Japanese seizure of Burma in 1941 cut the Burma Road, the vital supply lifeline between Burma and China. The US Army Air Forces mounted a massive aerial resupply effort based in Northern India to keep Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces in the fight. AAF cargo pilots flew tons of supplies "over the Hump" into China, braving treacherous weather, towering Himalayan peaks, and marauding Japanese fighters. Many AAF personnel in the CBI acquired souvenirs from local craftsmen to send or bring back to their loved ones on the homefront. Among the more exciting gifts a father would have sent to his boy back home was a pair of CBI incised patch badged leather flight boots. This pair of US Army AAF WW2 CBI Souvenir Father Bringback Boy’s Leather Flight Boots are in Fair Condition, with heavy rough tearing to the linings, moderate scuffing and flaking to the toes, moderate indenting to the insteps, moderate drying, crazing, and surface cracking to the lowers, moderate wrinkling and darkening to the uppers, the patches at the upper front shafts appearing to have come unstitched long ago, and been reattached with adhesive long ago as well, some loosening to the adhesion around the edges of the right boot patch, and with moderate to heavy overall wear evident. Most interestingly, they measure 7” tall and 7 1/2” in length from heel to toe, sport finished brown leather lowers and “roughout” brown leather uppers, and bear the classic China, Burma, India sun, star, and striped shield theater made incised leather patches at the upper front shafts. These boots are surprisingly well constructed, with leather strap and metal buckles across the insteps, stitched leather soles, pinned leather heels, and metal heel taps, and are an honest example of very rare, original US Army AAF WW2 CBI Souvenir Father Bringback Boy’s Leather Flight Boots.