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...secret U.S. air base in China, Brigadier General Claire Chennault squinted over photographs of bomb-scarred Linhsi after the first U.S. foray into North China. Said he: "It's going to be a cold winter in Japan." Riding huge four-motored Consolidated Liberators, Chennault's bombers had struck hard at Linhsi's Kailan coalfields. Those mines, 75 miles northeast of Tientsin, yield one-third of China's normal coal production, furnish much fuel for Japan's heavy industries and domestic heating...
Safe out of Burma, Belden hopped right back into danger with only a week's rest-rejoining General Claire Chennault and his Flying Tigers at the chief A.V.G. air base in China. He stayed on there with U.S. Army pilots when the A.V.G. was disbanded -ate with them, slept with them, flew with them while they strafed Jap ground troops all over eastern China-dodged Japanese ack-ack, dog-fought I-97s and Zeros, bombed ships, docks and factories up and down the Yangtze...
...youngest of his rank. His command: the Tenth Air Force, which Major General Lewis Brereton headed before being transferred to the Near East. The Tenth, based in India, may operate also in China and Burma, reinforcing the commands of Brigadier General Claire Chennault...
...prove the worth of U.S. fighters. This week a correspondent in Australia reported that P-40 squadrons at Darwin had downed 31 Jap bombers, 41 Jap Zeros, and lost only 15 P-40s in the last few months. Apparently the U.S. fighter commander at Darwin, like-General Chennault, is an exceptionally astute leader. Last week the P-40s at Darwin did what theoretically they could not do: bagged a flock of Zeros at 25,000 feet, far above their normal altitude-the official communiqué called it a "brilliant tactical success," which it must have been...
Fortnight ago, for the first time in China's five-year-old war, the Chinese Army made an attack with air support. Fighter planes of General Chennault's 23rd Pursuit Group, carrying medium bombs strapped to their wings, flew over Linchwan, smashed the Jap headquarters, barracks and supply depots as Chinese on the ground launched their attack. Chinese troops cleared out the nearby town of Huwan, fought their way into Linchwan's suburbs. Last week the fight was still going on, while the Sky Dragons harried Jap supply lines and reinforcements...