Word: manchukuoans
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Rehearsals. But schooling and war games do not make an artilleryman, he needs war. On the Soviet-Manchukuoan border in 1938, Voronov's guns took the measure of Japan's artillery, neatly shaved off a few hilltops, complete with Japanese pillboxes. In 1939, the Red Army again fought the Japanese, on the border of Outer Mongolia, though this was primarily Georgy Zhukov's tank show. In 1940, Voronov came against Finland's famed Mannerheim Line...
...there were reasons, just as potent, why Russia and Japan should maintain a watchful neutrality. Each has half a million to a million troops posted on the long Siberian-Manchukuoan frontier. The Soviet Far Eastern Army is well equipped, led by rugged General Joseph Rodionovich ("Hercules") Apanasenko. A Red Air Force and a Red submarine fleet are ready...
First Chang Ching-hui, 69, one of the last of the war lords, considerately poisoned the members of his family to save them from the vengeance of the Japanese. Next he shot his Japanese "adviser" and five officials of the Manchukuoan Government. Then he committed honorable suicide...
Perhaps Tokyo was telling the truth. Perhaps troops were being moved out of China for the Manchukuoan or the Indian front. All China's dauntless, underarmed soldiers knew was that wherever they met the enemy, he took a beating...
Siberia's Far East extends 3,450 air miles. Its coastline is nearly twice that long. The Manchukuoan frontier alone is as long as Europe's Eastern Front. The Trans-Siberian railroad has been double-tracked all the way to Vladivostok, but is extremely vulnerable. If it were cut, the chief cities - Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-would be isolated. Further north two new lines are being rushed. Biggest industrial enterprise in the Far East is the Chapcherginsk Tin Combinat, which produces 65% of all Soviet tin. No. 1 industrial center is Komsomolsk, where the Amur Steel Works turn...