Word: chekiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to dominate her own skies this summer with the aid of a handful of U.S. planes and pilots. As the Japanese have spread their land forces all over Asia, Chiang's armies have swept back with the tide. Last week they had thrown the Japs back in Chekiang province, were closing in on the last "bomb Tokyo" airfield in the province...
...Pacific, in Burma. No offensive army in modern history had ever spread itself so thin. And so in China his bailing slowed down and the water began to rise. Last week it had all but washed the Jap out of the coastal province of Chekiang, most densely populated, most modern and one of the most productive (wheat, beans, rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China rejoiced at getting its military feet back on the fertile...
...overwhelm the thinly extended Japs in the Solomons. MacArthur and his Australians were ready with enough troops to set back, perhaps defeat, the Japs in New Guinea. Even the Chinese, supported by a small U.S. air force, had concentrated enough power to take full advantage of Jap withdrawals in Chekiang and Kiangsi. Plainly the Japs were suffering more from their dispersals than the Allies suffered at the points of specific action last week...
...still held the vital coastline of southeast China, but in the interior the offensive was falling from his hands. Tokyo had its explanation. It was that troops were being withdrawn from Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces "to secure a . . . position for future action...
Last week, while the token U.S. Air Force in China blasted at Japanese-held objectives, ground forces of the Chinese took two pearls of potentially great price. They pushed the enemy back through Chekiang Province and retook two of the finest military airdromes in China; one at Lishui, only 700 miles from the great naval base at Nagasaki; another at Chuhsien, only a few bomber steps farther. China knew what could be done to Japan from there...