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...weeks during the spring and early summer Japanese armies had pushed along the Hangchow-Nanchang Railway. Their two great objectives had been: 1) a safe supply line by land all the way from Shanghai to their Indo-China bases; 2) destruction of air bases from which U.S. planes could bomb Tokyo. They were near to success when, instead of delivering the last killing blow, they faltered. Last week came reports of their slow withdrawal before desperate Chinese resistance...
...great, good friend, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, had said: "Today the Japanese bomber is the hunted, not the hunter." All that week there had been fresh signs that this was true. Winging over the lonely shores of the South China Sea, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong in Indo-China, the big invasion base where the Jap squatted, glaring at Yunnan Province and waiting for the end of the monsoons...
...most dangerous, most important mission the task force had yet undertaken. Unlike most other raids in China, this one required a flight across treacherous mountains, through heavy weather, and an. approach over enemy-held Indo-China territory. If the Jap spotted the force on its way to Haiphong he would have time to send fighters from Canton and Hanoi to intercept it on the way home. Nonetheless, stout, scowling Colonel Caleb Haynes, boss of General Chennault's bombers, set out to hit Haiphong with everything...
...sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
Last fortnight the Japs took the last Chinese gap in one section of this route (Hangchow to Nanchang). Last week they reached for the railway between Nanchang and Chuchow, which in turn joins lines to Kwangsi, Indo-China, Siam and Malaya...