Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The dripping hand of the monsoon lay heavy on northern India and Burma, but the U.S. Ferrying Command flew on, up to Kunming, to Chungking, to many another secret China base.
There was dire need for the risks they ran, and for the trickle of supplies that was slowly becoming a tiny but continuous stream. China was desperate for all they could carry, and for the combat planes and ground crews that other pilots were ferrying over northern Burma. The Chinese...
For the decisions which would answer Molotov, the world had to wait. But Churchill's sudden visit to the U.S., Molotov's grave words and the graver threat to Russia (see p. 21), all the crowding crises of last week hammered home a fact so simple that it...
Help from the U.S. to China was said to be on the way at last. Chungking announced that U.S. bombers would be flown to Chinese fronts by Colonel Caleb Haynes, who has been running the air ferry to China from India. Carolina-born, 47, Colonel Haynes is a crack airman...
But they must get there in a hurry. For China is fast losing her war with Japan, and that means that the United Nations are fast losing Asia. To beat China down, it is not necessary for the Japanese to take every bit of Chinese terrain, or even most of...