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Japanese cities and industries had taken B-29 attacks before, but they had come at infrequent intervals, from the remote, gasoline-starved U.S. air bases at Chengtu in China. This time Tokyo was struck from a new and formidable base on Saipan in the Marianas, 1,500 miles from the Japanese capital. At Saipan the high-octane gas comes in by the tankerload. Tokyo could be sure that more and bigger attacks would be made-and on a frequent schedule. If the Japs had any lingering doubt, that was dispelled three days later when a B-29 group roared northward...
...members: Pat O'Brien, Jimmy Dodd, Ruth Carrell, Harry Brown, Betty Yeaton, Jinx Falkenburg. They also played the B-29 bases around Chengtu, won G.I. praise for taking...
...week's end, in a skillfully integrated attack, the largest force of B-29 Superfortresses yet sent on an attack (well over 100) swept out from their bases around Chengtu in western China. They followed two flights of navy planes over Formosa's greatest arsenal at Okayama. Two days later, they returned to strike again. In all, only two B-29s were lost...
...from the little island empire. Although the nearest battlefield was almost 350 miles from Chungking, the atmosphere in the capital was heavy with disaster. The Jap drive was a new and terrible threat to the very heart of Free China, the stronghold area lying in a quadrilateral between Chengtu, Chungking, Kweiyang and Kunming...
...pictures were collected from the desks of child students in Chengtu, the cultural capital of western China, 150 miles northwest of Chungking. Children between the ages of seven and 13, under their teachers' guidance, expressed their reactions to war, caricatured their Japanese enemies, drew political cartoons. One drawing, by 13-year-old Peng Teh-chuan, made use of the Chinese proverbial phrase Giving Charcoal in Snowy Weather ("A friend in need is a friend indeed") by picturing a forceful Roosevelt rushing aid to a stern Stalin...