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...China flyers ranged farther. On another raid they swept down river to Kiu-kiang (see p. 25), broke up a Jap concentration. They punched at Nanchang and, it was reported, at Hong Kong. Greatest wonder of all: they ranged southeast all the way to Canton, caught the Jap's planes on the ground, blasted 50 to 60 of them to bits. This week, over Szechwan, they broke up a 50-plane Jap bombing party headed for Chungking...
...small for anything but occasional, unannounced sorties. Not until July 6 did General Joseph W. Stilwell, the top U.S. Commander in China, take off the lid with his Communique No. 1, announcing that the U.S. Army Air Forces were operating in China. Army bombers had struck at Hankow, Canton, Nanchang. U.S. Army fighters had escorted the bombers, downing Jap planes and scorching Jap fields...
Specialist. In Canton, Ohio, a man fought extradition to Muskegon County, Mich. on a charge of having stolen 20 gallons of worms...
...shots now," says Mr. Tobe Deutschmann of Canton, Mass. "But they still send us supplies C.O.D., and I let 'em come that way just to remind myself that I'm not any different now than when this place never even had a drinking fountain...
...seemed to be all bad. In the eastern theater, in Chekiang Province, where the Japanese Army wants to seize airfield's within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw. A new spearhead pushed north from the Canton area. China's Chekiang-Kiangsi and Hankow-Canton railroads were eaten up mile by hard-fought mile. Yet Chiang was optimistic...