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...pass up Anshan was Tangku, the port of Tientsin in northernmost China. The Monsoon was past Tangku on the way home when it was discovered that half her bomb load had stuck in the bay. A target of last resort had been specified: the airfield at Chenghsien. The nearby railway junction had already been bombed by a diversionary force of B-29s. The Monsoon knocked out the airfield control tower with its leftovers and breezed back to base...
This week a new president takes over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway...
...lying asleep by the railway station one night in the rain, then I woke up because there was a train going by. They were stuffed on roofs and in boxcars. They had lashed themselves to couplings between cars. There were refugees on the cowcatcher in front; underneath the trains they had laid some boards across the rods between the wheels. They stretched their mattresses on the boards and there they were, lying one on top of the other between the rods and trains...
Less indulgent to other civilians, the Nazi authorities forbade them to enter or leave the province without permits, put some to work on fortifications. Nevertheless, refugees-some of whom streamed in from the Baltic countries-crowded railway stations and blocked roads to the west, not bothering with identification papers or ration cards...
...approaching newly conquered territory, where the Jap had obligingly helped out by maintaining a surfaced road from Kamaing to Mogaung, there joining the railway and highway to Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch'-i-nah). From Myitkyina it could go two ways: through jungle track northeast to Lauh-kaung, south to Tengyueh, east to Burma Road; or it could go south from Mogaung to Bhamo, northeast to Tengyueh. The battle's course would dictate the choice...