Word: chinwangtao
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...marines were none too sure that they would get out of China themselves. But they packed the bones with their own gear, shipped everything on the Manchurian railway and planned to meet an American transport at the coastal town of Chinwangtao. A hospital corpsman was designated as escort for the bones, but the escort missed the train. A few days later marines, train, and transport were all in Japanese hands...
Diligent search by Japanese soldiers, who had been tipped off by a Tokyo anthropologist, failed to uncover the fossils. Postwar investigations by American scientists and marines were equally unsuccessful, although the searchers traced missing freight cars, ranged from Chinwangtao south to Tingtao, poked into long-sealed "godowns...
Next stop was the Chinese port of Chinwangtao, where the Marine Flier paused to unload 2,500 tons of girdles ("the engine-room bell was clanging . . . he may have said girders"). "Every sort of object imaginable was being offered by street hawkers . . . noodles, poodles . . . leeches, breeches, peaches . . . roots, boots, flutes, coats, shoats, stoats." Perelman tossed the children "a few worn gold pieces which were of no further use to me," and then he and Hirschfeld took a brief ride in rickshas...
...railroad between Tientsin and Chinwangtao, four hours a day, Pfc. John J. Janes of the U.S. Marines stands guard at "Bridge 21." A husky young veteran from Grafton, W.Va., wounded at Okinawa, Janes is one of 47,000 marines now on duty in China. Like most of them, he is homesick and his morale is low-for a marine, very...
Rice and flour have been coming to General Tu's armies from Shanghai through the port of Chinwangtao. Supplies started moving north this week beyond the Great Wall over the Peiping-Mukden railroad, which so far has suffered relatively minor damage. At Mukden there will be more rice and flour, unless the Russians or Communists have cleared them out. If heavy fighting develops, ammunition supplies will be another problem: ammunition must still come up from the south...