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Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force had stepped up its bombing of air bases and oil supplies in Celebes and Borneo; Major General Willis H. Hale's Seventh Air Force had smashed at the Bonin and Volcano Islands; Chennault had raided Formosa; the southern Palau Islands had been seized by U.S. troops...
...reinforcements, the Japs made good time, taking Wuchow and pressing on to Tan-chuk, most important of the Fourteenth Air Force bases southeast of the Heng-yang-Nanning line. Like the great U.S. base at Kweilin, built by the hand labor of thousands of Chinese, Tanchuk was scorched by Chennault's airmen before they left...
...tradespeople and artisans poured westward, seeking the safety which for so many years has eluded them like a mirage. China's exhausted, tattered soldiers fingered their last handfuls of cartridges, momentarily expecting attack by enemy patrols. Red-eyed, grimy American ground crewmen worked around the clock to keep Chennault's planes flying...
...Future Gains. Why should the U.S. look at the same set of facts as the enemy and also find cause for concern? Basically, it was because the U.S. had always counted on receiving substantial help from General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Chinese legions and Major General Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force in reaching the China coast from the east. Now the China coast, and U.S. air bases within 400 miles of it, were being lost, perhaps for the duration. Many a U.S. strategist had taken for granted that soon after General MacArthur fulfilled his promise...
About 200 planes were credited to pilots from the Mountbatten, MacArthur and Chennault commands, but carrier-based navymen of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mit-scher's task force, from Halsey's Third Fleet, went on a more destructive ram page. In seven carrier raids from Aug. 30 to Sept. 25 (four of them over the Philip pines) 1,101 Jap planes were destroyed. Significantly, Halsey's fourth raid, an nounced last week, was met by only seven Jap planes in the central Philippines. Left on the ground for Marc Mit-scher's pilots to destroy were...