Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better than most, the Chinese knew that the Jap was no superman. But the enemy kept on trying in his own unsubtle way to build up the myth. Even when U.S. airmen shot up Jap craft over such bombers' targets as Canton and Hong Kong, he kept at it. In such cases he collected airmen who had been shot down, paraded them blindfolded through the streets to convince the Chinese of Jap superiority...
...lags a sentence behind the actors when he goes to the English theater ; his mother is Cantonese but he cannot speak Canton ese well enough to get along with Chinese waiters; and he dares not call on the Chi nese Ambassador in London because "He'd probably expect me to speak Mandarin . . . jeepers...
...Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, was "irritated" that anyone could have misunderstood its full-page MacArthur picture ad in various magazines and-newspapers as a political endorsement...
...ground, throwing flights into the air at the exact time and place for perfect interception of Jap forces. With more bombers and fighters now, he concentrates on overall tactics, shifting his planes in a pattern as intricate as a ballet. The Japanese, hitting back from their Formosa, Hankow, Canton and Indo-China bases, have learned much from their two years of combat with Chennault...
...Fourteenth is still confined by geography and tactical limitations. It operates chiefly in the vast pocket of Central China south of the Yangtze, hedged in on the north and south by the two great Jap bases at Hankow and Canton. Its fighters and bombers provide an air umbrella of limited scope when the Jap in Central China and along the Salween front of western Yunnan stabs at the tough, resilient Chinese lines. But the Fourteenth has a consolation of sorts: its men know that they are contributing to a much greater show. Every ship sunk and every plane shot down...