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Last week ten Japanese bombers came winging their carefree way up into Yunnan, heading directly for Kunming, the terminus of the Burma Road. Thirty miles south of Kunming, the Flying Tigers swooped, let the Japanese have it. Of the ten bombers, said Chungking reports, four plummeted to earth in flames. The rest turned tail and fled. Tiger casualties : none...
...thing and one thing only-the re-establishment of free and independent Thailand." The ornate, red-carpeted sitting room, dazzling with gold-silk furniture, pillars and goddesses, echoed with the Oriental cheers. When he finished his eloquent speech, the Minister selected a cigaret from the skull of a tiger whose open jaws were lined with gold, and ended solemnly, in English: "Gentlemen, we'll lick the hell out of 'em. That is the motto of the Thai people...
...mechanics and pilots for 100 old, outdated Curtiss P-40s that China had bought for Burma Road defense (TIME, June 23). Snarled by red tape, distance and misunderstanding, they had spent months establishing themselves. But for weeks now they had been practicing. Last week, their flight name chosen ("Flying Tigers"), spangled with Disney-designed insignia (a ferocious, striped tiger leaping through the point of a victory V). they were ready to begin the Battle of the Burma Road...
...less than 20 minutes the attackers had taken Butch. In due course Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling after. Tiger, the stiffest of the four, was assigned to a famous Scottish regiment. It went into battle to a sound it loved-its pipe major, who had not been allowed to skirl his bagpipes in Tobruk, played...
...Tiger finally fell to a double tank assault, and more than 1,000 prisoners were taken. London News Chronicle's William Forrest, who had been bottled in Tobruk seven months, talked with some of the Germans. They said they had been surprised by the attack. Most of them had come to Africa in July; now they felt the night cold, like their comrades in Russia, and many of them had taken to Italian uniforms which were warmer than their own. One thumped himself on the chest and shouted in English: "I am a German officer." Most of the officers...