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...eyewitness report of Mukden's last hours, were in Shanghai. The General agreed to a next morning departure. Birns and Rowan boarded a civilian cargo plane at Shanghai, but a ground haze delayed the landing at Nanking until 10 a.m., almost three hours after General Chou's transport plane was to leave for the Suchow battlefront. Gruin spent the interval conning the Chinese airmen into waiting for the overdue plane. At length, the TIME-LIFE team got off for Suchow and their report back to Gruin not only established the fact that the Communists were winning the battle...
...Rubber Planes?" When he landed again at Suchow, evacuation jitters had already seized the troops awaiting air transport. Soldiers, ignoring orders, were fighting their way on to planes already on the field. Intermingled in the disorderly jam of troops, women dressed in soldiers' uniforms struggled to keep squalling infants from getting crushed. "My God," drawled a tall Texan, "they must think these planes are made of rubber...
Plievier's finest writing is in description of single horror scenes--the mobs of wounded men on the Gumrak landing strip, who storm each Junkers transport as it lands in the desperate hope of being flown to safety; the freezing corridors of a field hospital, where the wounded are left to die because there is no medicine; the group of high-ranking generals squatting in a dugout with nothing to do but talk because their units have been wiped out; the early-morning battle in the snow, in which an infantry battalion is shot down to a man between...
...peddled the Communist line "goddam traitors," and kicked Harvard-bred Lee Pressman, a notorious Communist-liner, out of the job of C.I.O. counsel. From that point on, Phil Murray grew bolder. Some believe that he even helped push that old bibber of Red propaganda, Michael Quill, boss of the transport workers, into taking the pledge...
...Think. The boss who watches over all these trades plus 1,700 employees and 16 air transports is Orvis Nelson, 41, a brawny airman who flew United Air Lines planes for twelve years. Nelson, an imaginative Minnesotan who writes short stories in his spare time, says: "You don't just sit there and fly. You think." Flying for United, Nelson thought the airlines were overlooking too much contract business. After the war (in which he served as civilian pilot in the Air Transport Command), he and 14 other pilots rented twelve surplus Army planes and later raised...