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Neither foxy Major General Claire Chennault nor the foe gave any hint where the Scorpions had their nest. But it was so remote that written communications with Chungking would take two weeks by devious routes through enemy lines. When not engaged in banging at enemy airfields or escorting Superfortresses returning from Manchuria, the Scorpions had a routine chore: shooting up locomotives on the Japs' tenuous north China railways. In two months their score...
Sleet-laden clouds hung like a leaden shroud over all the Kwangsi-Kweichow border area. Rime coated the tents and hutments of Chinese, Americans and Japanese alike. Icicles hung from the wings of Major General Claire L. Chennault's fighter-bombers, standing silent on the runways. For a hundred miles in every direction, columns of refugees and soldiers trudged through the hill paths and over roads broken by battle, their skin cracking with frostbite...
...Chinese spilled back into Kwangsi Province. At week's end they had branched out across country, and were taking over Hochih, 40 miles inside Kwangsi. Behind the advancing Chinese troops, conscript and contract laborers already worked to restore recaptured airstrips for emergency use by Major General Chennault's fighters. But the nearest major air base, at Liuchow, was 95 miles beyond Hochih...
Major General Claire Chennault, hawk-eyed chief of the Fourteenth Air Force in China, publicly greeted Hollywoodians Jinx Falkenburg and Pat O'Brien, members of a U.S.O. troupe whose performance moved 20th Bomber Command enlisted men-hitherto highly critical of China-Burma-India theater performers- to present them with a commendatory scroll...
Still in China, still the hero of the people and the confidant of the Generalissimo was Major General Claire Chennault with his small but effective air force; still in China were thousands of U.S. technicians. U.S. aid to China would continue. But there would be a difference, which reporters in China last week were helpless to define. At week's end the Associated Press received this dispatch...