Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's heart was in the words from Chungking: General Chennault and his company of air knights will always be remembered by the Chinese people as comrades in arms and as the friendly representatives of a friendly people.
Pilots of the Chungking Ferry-regulars, veterans of U.S. airlines, reserve officers-had never seen such incredible, sloshing weather. No longer did they sound the old pilots' wheeze, that even the crows were walking. The new one was that the fish were drowning. Near one Ferrying Command base the...
All the trimmings of tough flying went with the water-hail, sleet, air that was rougher than an Oklahoma line squall, terrain on which (said the pilots) a bird would break his legs in a forced landing. Yet the Chungking Ferry ran almost daily, riding instruments, dodging the Jap, who...
Slight, sleek-haired Brigadier General Earl Naiden, boss of the Chungking Ferry (and Chief of Staff to India Air Commander Lewis H. Brereton), was one man who was not surprised at the results. He had picked his men with care and an eye to their ability on instruments. He had...
The Chungking Ferry carries everything: bombs, guns, ammo, medical supplies, even gasoline for the thin stores of China, even though the quantity carried is only a drop in the bucket. Its planes fly unarmed, crawl into clouds or hedgehop through the valleys when the Jap jumps them up, hoping the...