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Word: chenankwan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs were bound not only for Kweilin, capital of Kwangsi Province, but also for Chenankwan on the French Indo-China border. If they ever got there, East China, with its bases from which Chennault's hard-driven aviators harass the enemy from Shanghai to Formosa to Hainan, would be lost. From such a catastrophe, the Pacific commands of General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz would suffer almost as much as the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Drive to the South | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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