Camille (Joe) Rosbert  graduated from Villanova as a chemical engineer before joining the Navy in 1938.   He joined the Navy  and was piloting a  PBY Catalina for VP-44 in San Diego when the AVG signed him up. Flying with the AVG he was credited with six victories thus qualifying for an upgrade to the Chinese Six-Star Wing Medal. When the AVG disbanded in July, 1943 he joined the CNAC as a transport pilot flying cargo over the Himalayas. On one excursion over the hump Joe Rosbert and his co-pilot Charles Hammell encounter a  blizzard along the frontier of Tibet.  The cockpit window froze over. The plane lost altitude rapidly as ice formed on the wings. This caused them to crash into a Himalayan peak. The pilots survived, miraculously, but both had suffered injuries to their legs. Sheltering in  the wreckage of their crashed plane they tried to keep warm as they survived on emergency rations. When the weather cleared, Rosbert and Hammel began the long, painful descent, hobbling, sliding, crawling down the precipitous slopes. How they managed to stay alive neither fully knew, but  they were found by a tribe of primitive hill people, the Mishmi, who live along the upper Brahmaputra River. Word of their survival reached a distant British patrol. Forty-seven days after the crash they once again reached civilization. 

With the end of the war Joe returned to the states and worked in Hollywood as a consultant to films for a short time.  He soon got back into aviation with fellow flying tigers and was one of the original founder-pilots of the Flying Tiger Line before  moving over to Chennaults Civil Air Transport, the predecessor of CIA backed  Air America.  Later he would run several "Flying Tiger Joe" restaurants and published this book Flying Tiger Joe's Story Cookbook.  Joe Rosbert died in January, 2007.

This is a hard covered book signed by Joe Rosbert as shown. Book is in new condition and  has been properly stored since its purchase in the nineties.