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...differences between the ratios in different theaters show variations in the combat efficiency of the enemy as well as of U.S. air forces. Smart as the operations of General Chennault in China have been, and of General Kenney in New Guinea, their ratios might not have been so favorable had they been fighting the still tougher Luftwaffe in Western Europe...
...three points near the Burma-India line the Japanese counterattacked. They crossed the Chindwin River in force, at week's end were almost across the Indian border to Manipur. If they succeeded in reaching their goal (Stilwell's and Chennault's supply lines), the Japs might make the other actions look like tea parties, might nullify all Allied gains since they ran Stilwell out of Burma two years...
Joseph Wright Alsop Jr., kin to both the Roosevelts, crack peacetime Washington correspondent (with Robert Kintner), was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, appointed aide to Major General Claire L. Chennault. Since 1941 Alsop had successively: 1) been in the Naval Reserve; 2) resigned from it; 3) been captured as a State Department man by the Japanese; 4) been repatriated; 5) worked with Chennault as a Lend-Lease...
...once carried a full load of medicines to earthquake victims in Chile. That was five years ago last month. Grandpappy's pilot then was burly Major Caleb V. Haynes, now a Brigadier General heading the First Bomber Command at Mitchel Field, New York, onetime boss of all of Chennault's bombers in China...
Pictures of the humiliated Americans finally reached Free China. Last week Major General Claire L. Chennault replied by making his airmen anonymous. Correspondents were forbidden to report the exploits of individual U.S. flyers; henceforth the Japs will capture only names, not known aces...