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...force had yet undertaken. Unlike most other raids in China, this one required a flight across treacherous mountains, through heavy weather, and an. approach over enemy-held Indo-China territory. If the Jap spotted the force on its way to Haiphong he would have time to send fighters from Canton and Hanoi to intercept it on the way home. Nonetheless, stout, scowling Colonel Caleb Haynes, boss of General Chennault's bombers, set out to hit Haiphong with everything...
That was not all. Never resting, within one short day Chennault's men flew to the port of Canton (see col. 1), where the Jap had entrenched himself along the Pearl River; attacked the Japanese base at Hankow; pounded Jap-held points at Nanchang, Sienning and Yochow on the Canton-Hankow railway...
...flying directly into the rising sun. Smudges of smoke from gunboats and ships on the Pearl River mix with a low-lying mist. Beyond, I know, is the Canton airfield...
...stumble into the dining room. The crew-as fresh as I am tired-preparing to go out on another mission, doggedly eager to get at the Jap. Again it is Canton, the main Japanese air base. For two weeks they have been falling on us with waves of 40 to 50 bombers, trying to wipe out our fighter base. We've got to strike them in their own home...
...clear I'll flash on one navigation light. . . ."I climb into the bomber with him. Above, we find a clearer spot in a squall and flash on one light. Up after us come the rest of the bombers and peashooters [fighters]. As dawn breaks we are off for Canton...