Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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All this was well and bitterly known to Lauchlin Currie when he faced Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and many another Chinese personage last week on Vice President H. H. Kung's lawn in Chungking. President Roosevelt had sent Dr. Currie to Chungking once before, in 1941, when Lend-Lease...
In two weeks the China task force ran off a dozen or more destructive raids, gave the spirit of China a big lift. From secret bases behind the gorges of the Yangtze, bombers thundered down the river and, above Hankow's two big airfields, released their bombs in symbolic...
The China flyers ranged farther. On another raid they swept down river to Kiu-kiang (see p. 25), broke up a Jap concentration. They punched at Nanchang and, it was reported, at Hong Kong. Greatest wonder of all: they ranged southeast all the way to Canton, caught the Jap'...
"While we were operating after the bombing-I had four operating tables going at once with nurses finishing the operations after I had done the most essential part, and Koi [one of the nurses] operating on her own-General Stilwell came in and watched us without our knowing he was...
To London, Chungking. U.S. ocean air freight began with a bang last January when the Army requisitioned TWA's five 22½-ton Boeing Stratoliners. Scores of 12½ton Douglas DC-3 airline transports were drafted from the airlines, sent around the nation, to Alaska, Britain, Greenland, Africa...