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China's fugitive Nationalist government tarried at Chengtu just ten days. The night before it fled once more from the oncoming Reds, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called a cabinet session. Decisions: 1) resistance to the Communists on the mainland would go underground; 2) headquarters for some 600,000 Nationalist irregulars would be established in the rugged Tibetan border province of Sikang; 3) the Nationalist capital would move to Taipei on the island redoubt of Formosa...
...true that all is not in order here, but much has been done. For example, in those large areas where there is no Communist problem China is a good risk. . . . Even the French are interested in a railway between Chengtu and Indo-China. Only the Americans hold aloof-waiting for better risks...
...soon as able Educator Stuart can move Yenching back to Peiping (it has been limping along in exile at Chengtu), he plans to retire, end his days in China...
...Beginning. The first B-29 mission against Japan was flown June 15, 1944, when 68 planes from Chengtu, deep in China, bombed the Yawata Steel Works on Kyushu. The communiqué said hopefully that results were "effective." Four planes were lost on this pioneering mission. A total of 49 missions was flown from China, India and Burma bases, but B-29 men knew from the start that the invasion of the Marianas (begun at Saipan, also June 15) was far more important for their purposes. For in China every bomb, every gallon of gasoline had to be flown over...
...whose B-29 Superfortresses fly from Saipan fields, had already moved its headquarters to Guam. The 21st had far outgrown its elder brother, the 20th, based in India and China, and burly, black-jowled Curtis E. LeMay (at 38 the Army's youngest major general) had flown from Chengtu to Guam to take over. Haywood S. ("Possum") Hansell, a specialist in planning, was recalled to Washington...