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...Chinese High Command had warm words of praise last week for Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. It had helped slow the Japanese thrust into Shensi. But the General was in no mood to praise or be praised. He called in American and Chinese newspapermen to hear harsh news: thieves and gangsters in "both organized and unorganized bands" were hampering the operations of his air force...
...save the strength of the Army, General Chennault urged Chinese people not to buy stolen equipment, which is easily identifiable. Japanese forces, maneuvering in central China, seemed preparing drives against the U.S. bases at Chihkiang in southern Hupeh and Poseh in western Kwangsi. The Fourteenth Air Force would need all its strength...
Married. Al Jolson, 56, veteran "Mammy" singer; and Erie Galbraithe, 21, Southern-syllabled cinema starlet, ex-X-ray technician, remote kinswoman of General Claire Chennault; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Quartzsite, Ariz...
...Pilot (Warner), an adaptation of Colonel Robert Lee Scott's best-seller (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943), tells the story of the 34-year-old Georgia flyer who, refusing to believe he was too old for combat, became an ace under General Chennault (Raymond Massey), was forced to land in enemy territory after helping to bomb Hong Kong, and survived to teach Army flyers what he had learned during the lean, heroic days of air warfare in China...
...southeast, Chennault had dispersed his planes widely after the loss of Kweilin and Liuchow. Now, from secret bases, they went on attacking Hong Kong. The Japs retaliated by bombing two Allied airfields deep in Kiangsi Province...