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...time and a scene for individual achievement, individual disaster. General Wavell in India, defending a people who wished him gone, blessed the monsoons which temporarily shrouded and protected the Bay of Bengal. Chennault in China, with his hardy but insufficient U.S. air force, at least taught the Japs what it was to be hit, and dreamed of what he could do with just a little more (see p. 26). MacArthur, trapped in Australia (see p. 44), had to obey orders and watch the play of Asian history from his seat Down Under...
...still pitifully small-a few fighters, fewer bombers. Most of the fields painfully prepared by the patient Chinese were still idle; some had been taken by the Jap. But the Air Force was at work. What it had accomplished under the command of seam-faced Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault made the Chinese feel warm all over...
With what he had, Chennault accomplished wonders comparable to his work with the A.V.G., a few of whose members stayed on to show youngsters of the U.S. Army the know-how of China flying...
Stronger Tea. Up to last week censors in China had allowed U.S. correspondents to identify two Army bomber units and one pursuit group. General Chennault said that this initial force's job would be to soften up Jap strongholds in China, put the Japanese on the air defensive. More U.S. planes and crews will have to complete the long journeys to Africa, India and China before the Army Air Forces can take a decisive role in China's war or carry the war to Japan itself...
General Chu and Claire Chennault will certainly have at least 500 planes, and have them soon, if War & Navy Secretaries Stimson and Knox meant what they said in an Order of the Day on the opening of China's sixth year at war: "The Army and Navy of the U.S. salute their comrades-in-arms in China, and join with them in the firm determination to expel the aggressor from every foot of Chinese soil...