Word: kweilin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That day, McAllister had flown over Kweilin as the last fighter strip was blown up by U.S. demolition men. The once great base was checked off as the seventh of the missing. The Japs were only three minutes away as the Mustang flew when the job was finally done...
Jungle Retrievers. Last week the enemy's armor-tipped columns speared into Kweilin through the tired 35 divisions of China's "Old Ironsides," General Chang Fa-kwei. They closed in on 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...
...retrieving were to be done in China, it would have to be done with arms and supplies shipped in along a reopened Burma Road and an expanded airline over the Hump. While ill-supplied Chinese were dying hopelessly at Kweilin, well-supplied Chinese were fighting hopefully and successfully in the jungles of Burma, closing in on Bhamo, terminus of the northern (alternate) branch of the Burma Road...
Only the 60-mile gap around Kweilin stood between the Japs and their immediate strategic objectives in China-a continuous 2,000-mile front and communications system from Siberia to the South China Sea. Chungking, desperately hoping to make Kweilin the Stalingrad of Free China, worked mightily to stave off disaster...
...city's commander, General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted aides, was receiving China's pitiful best in reinforcements, arms and food. Kweilin and its strange hills, like inverted ice cream cones, began to bristle with improvised defenses: coolies dug broad trenches in the city's streets and vacant lots. The stage was set for the biggest, most fateful battle since Hankow...