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...Liuchow, and the eighth of our air bases was missing. Simultaneously the enemy drove for Nanning. The gap between the Japs' north and south China forces already had been closed; now, if the drive for Nanning succeeded, the enemy would have through lines from Manchuria to Indo-China and thence to Singapore. The Fourteenth Air Force would be pushed back hundreds of miles from the South China Sea and the Japs would have brought off one of the great victories of the war in Asia...
...influences dominated his one hobby-shooting and hunting. He became one of the crack shots of the service, captained rifle teams, became a skeet champion. On his leaves he packed off to hunt big game-caribou and moose in Canada, elephants and tigers in Indo-China...
...perhaps stronger. Its 4,000,000 soldiers are organized in 70 combat divisions of about 20,000 men each, plus almost twice as many reserves and service troops. The 70 divisions are distributed: eight in the home islands; ten in Burma, Thailand, Indo-China and Malaya; 20 in the Philip pines, the Netherlands Indies and Pacific islands; 32 in China and Manchuria. In southeast Asia the Japs also have 70,000 quisling troops - Burmese, Malays, Thais and a few Indians. Militarily these are an unknown quantity...
Cost of the Loss. If the Japanese take Kweilin, they will: 1) deprive free China of the rice, manufactures and other resources which come from the southern coast provinces; 2) win the chance to open an overland route to Indo China; 3) cut off the U.S. air force in China from the bases whence it has raided Japanese shipping and supported the now almost exhausted Chinese armies behind the coast...
...Japs were bound not only for Kweilin, capital of Kwangsi Province, but also for Chenankwan on the French Indo-China border. If they ever got there, East China, with its bases from which Chennault's hard-driven aviators harass the enemy from Shanghai to Formosa to Hainan, would be lost. From such a catastrophe, the Pacific commands of General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz would suffer almost as much as the Chinese...