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...Regardless of the enemy design," said the voice from Tokyo, "the war situation has increased with unprecedented seriousness-nay, furiousness." Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Air Force got its biggest weekly bag of the war: 27,000 tons of Jap shipping definitely sunk. > Against "negligible" resistance Admiral William F. Halsey's amphibious troops took the Green (Nissan) Islands between Bougainville and New Ireland, cut off an estimated 22,000 Japs in the Northern Solomons, ended the Solomons campaign. > Rabaul declined further as an effective Jap base as U.S. and Australian flyers sank...
...planes carry across Zero-infested Burma and over 17,000-ft. Himalayan passes to Kunming in China. These copies vault the top of the world and pass over "the worst stretch of country covered by any of the world's farflung war transport operations" to reach General Claire Chennault and his airmen. And every week 50 more copies reach key Chinese leaders via TIME Correspondent Teddy White in Chungking...
...lost his first major struggle with astute Dr. Kung, who then replaced him as Minister of Finance. Until 1940, T. V. avoided politics. He was sent to Washington, negotiated a $100-million loan from the U.S., later secured Lend-Lease help for China, got Administration approval of Claire L. Chennault's scheme to recruit U.S. pilots for A.V.G...
Howard had learned how to fight from a top-grade teacher. Originally a Pensacola-trained Navy flyer, he resigned his commission to join the A.V.G. Flying Tigers in China under Major General Claire Chennault. He found good cornpany there, became a squadron leader in six months, shot down six Japs. When his China term was up, he came home rail-thin from dengue fever, took three months' leave, then went back to war, this time with the Army Air Forces...
Last week, for the first time, Major General Claire L. Chennault's China-based Liberators thundered over the pagodaed Siamese capital. They bombed railroad yards, an airdrome, started fires visible 60 miles away. Bleated Luang Pitul: the attack on "a small nation like Thailand . . . was just as easy as going to the golf course. It is impossible for such an enemy to attain victory. In addition, America will be punished severely by Providence...