Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the 60-mile gap around Kweilin stood between the Japs and their immediate strategic objectives in China-a continuous 2,000-mile front and communications system from Siberia to the South China Sea. Chungking, desperately hoping to make Kweilin the Stalingrad of Free China, worked mightily to stave off...
"Pepper" Martin-taking the hard way back to his old post in Chungking -faced the mortar fire at Peleliu with the first landing wave, found himself pinned on the sands between two quizzical Marines ("I wonder where we are." "It sure ain't Staten Island")
Chungking did not seriously expect to hold Kweilin indefinitely. But Chungking knew that another debacle, as at Changsha in June, would have domestic political as well as international and military repercussions. The agonized fight had to go on.
From Chungking last week came rumors of big events in the making.
¶ Creation of a War Production Board for China, with Donald Nelson returning to Chungking to assist.