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...secure the Peiping-Hankow-Canton railroad, firmly establish the Empire's equivocal hold on southeast China east of the railroad, knock out U.S. air bases there, and try to make the coast impregnable to U.S. attack. It was also to supplement sea supply lanes under fire from Chennault and American naval attack. But only in the last four weeks had the enemy decisively written his plan in military action...
...support the Chinese, Claire Chennault's tiny Fourteenth Air Force did its gallant best. More than 1,000 sorties were flown in a week* against river shipping and roads clogged with Jap columns. But the Fourteenth's forces were spread thin over a big and complicated theater...
Born 29 years ago in Gale, Texas, Vincent was graduated from West Point in 1936. After Pearl Harbor he went to China to fight under Chennault, became his operations officer and deputy chief of staff. He is credited with six Jap kills. When he got his D.F.C. last year, he had taken off on more than 50 missions totaling 144 hours of combat flying. He now commands one of General Chennault's most important "composite" (Chinese and U.S.) units...
...supply route to China may soon be using it, avoiding the 20,000-ft.-high "oxygen run" across the Hump and stepping up the deliveries to Major General Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and the Chinese armies. To this airfield, too, reinforcements for Stilwell can be fer ried even during the monsoon...
...army of Honan, this "was a first-rate fighting force,'partly equipped with U.S. howitzers and mortars, partly led by U.S.-trained officers, commanded by the seasoned veteran, General Wei Li-huang, whom his men call "100-victory Wei." Effective air support came from Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force...