LAWSON – World War II veteran Lindell Jarman, Lawson, celebrated his 100th birthday surrounded by family on Thanksgiving. Having spent three years in college, Jarman, then 21, volunteered for service July 30, 1942, in Kansas City, Kansas, based on National Archives information. He served as an Army Air Corps pilot – before the Air Force became a separate military branch – and spent one year in overseas service. “I flew all over India and China. I made 82 different flights,” Jarman said. “That’s a lot of flights without a crash.” Allied transport pilots called the east end of the Himalayan Mountains “The Hump,” over which they flew vital supplies from India for the Chinese against Japanese invaders. No supply route proved more dangerous, with more than 1,000 men and 600 planes going down, Insider reported. When discharged honorably in 1946, Jarman returned stateside. “I returned home to the United States by boat from Kolkata, India, to New York,” he said. “It took 28 days, and it…