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...great Chiang, say his farmer-soldiers, sits like a mountain, moves like a dragon, and walks with the sure step of a tiger. Sometimes some of the soldiers get a chance to see Chiang, and when they do, they still believe this description of him. Soldiers who have fought under him say that when they knew they were to talk with him, they would write down what they planned to say, memorize it, and then be unable to speak when they looked at that calm, mysterious face with the tender eyes and jaw of iron...
...front dashed Lung Yun (the Cloud Dragon), Governor of Yunnan Province. With the dead general at his feet, he called on the little soldiers for another last stand. The Jap would soon cross the Salween. His rolling stock was already massing on the bluff. He would have to be stopped. It would be hard. Every beaten soldier there knew that the Japs across the Salween were from the crack Red Dragon armored division...
...China side the dead general lay where he had fallen. His men, shouting their war cries, hurried down to the river and sniped at the Jap as he ran. Down the road into Burma fled the Red Dragon, broken, bereft of his trucks and equipment. Six American youngsters and the Cloud Dragon had saved a bitter...
...creator, has in year's past been accustomed to send to the crew at Red Top an enlarged, unexpurgated, water-color version of one of his current heroines. Pinned on the wall of the central hall at the New London training quarters are such sultry females as the Dragon Lady, Hu Shee, Burma, Normandie, and April Kane...
...from Burma the Japanese seemed to be rushing like a flood wave on the Yangtze, irresistible and ruinous. The mere boundary between Burma and China did not dam them. They pressed headlong across into Yünnan Province, where the hills are cruel and the Governor is called The Dragon and the tribesmen are not hospitable...