Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong Japanese motorized columns today appeared to be driving towards Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province and key to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's vital southwest defense zone...
...Army began moving in on the A.V.G. All the signs were that Chiang Kai-shek's light-hearted mercenaries of deadly aim would soon be back in Federal service like their seam-faced leader Claire L. Chennault, recently taken off the retired list and made a Brigadier General. (The Navy and Marine Corps had a claim to some of them too; as many had been trained at Pensacola as at Randolph Field...
...reporter as soon as I get a little more confidence." In China he got it fast. Paying his own fare out to Shanghai, Jacoby wangled a job under Dr. Hollington Tong, was delegated to reorganize Chungking's radio broadcasting. When he had got U.S. hookups for Madame Chiang Kaishek, her sisters (Madame Kung and Madame Sun Yat-sen), he headed home via Indo-China. He stopped over eight months, got arrested for taking pictures during the Jap invasion, came out a full-fledged U.P. correspondent...
...went to Manila. She caught up two weeks before Pearl Harbor. Married immediately, they slipped away for a two-day rainy honeymoon in a cottage at Tagaytay. But they were not alone; they had to see to the care & feeding of two baby giant pandas, gifts of Madame Chiang Kaishek, en route to the U.S. Their magnificent wedding presents from Chinese officials-red satin embroidered blankets, silver filigree china, Tao silver and bamboo vases-went up in smoke a week later when Manila fell...
...three battalions of native Burmese riflemen, who were the exceptions to the Burmese natives' general indifference or hostility. The R.A.F had very little in the air at the start, practically nothing after a few weeks of combat. Because the Jap advance threatened the Burma Road to China, Chiang Kai-shek detailed his American Volunteer Group to Burma's air defense. The A.V.G. destroyed scores of Jap planes, but lost its own as well. By last week the A.V.G. was using any old crate at hand. Finally, the Japanese faced not more than three divisions of Chinese infantry, perhaps...