Word: chekiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the Jap in the north (see p. 21) and in the east, particularly in Kiangsi Province, where by a series of explosive sallies it made the Jap's life miserable. It shook his hold from the eastern railroad net, sliced a big piece out of the vital Chekiang-Kiangsi railway he had spent so much blood to win. From Shensi Province in the inland north to Kwangtung on the southeast coast it snatched villages from the invaders. It lost others, but always it fought...
China. The Jap grew daily more fierce in the occupied provinces of China. Bloodcurdling stories of mass massacres seeped out of newly occupied Chekiang Province. In the northern Hopei-Shantung-Shansi triangle the Japs tried a scorched-earth policy of burning out villages and frightening civilians from whom guerrilla bands receive food and shelter. But in Shanghai the Japanese had been busy trying to make the Chinese like their puppet government...
...simultaneous attacks along the coast of Chekiang Province, the Japs closed one of China's last channels for smuggled goods and braced themselves for a final effort to drive the Chinese from coastal Fukien Province. With Fukien would go the best remaining bases in China for air attack on Japan. The Japanese also stabbed at interior Hunan with a double aim: to take an area valuable to Chiang Kai-shek's armies, to extend Jap control of eastern China's railways...
...that other pilots were ferrying over northern Burma. The Chinese still had 50 miles of railroad in east China, which denied the Japanese the use of the line between Shanghai and the south. But the Jap had taken the last of three fine airfields prepared by the Chinese in Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces against the day when the Americans would come with bombers. Now in Chungking, China's leaders looked to Burma and the clammy cloud of the monsoon...
...explanation came out of Chungking. The "air units" were merely ground crews, technicians, front men. They were a token of planes to come, but on the Chekiang-Kiangsi front, where the situation was desperate, the time for planes...