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Lord Louis had arrived to iron out the last organizational wrinkles in his new command, to get set for an expected push into Burma or Malaya. That day he talked with U.S., Chinese and British officers. Next day arrived Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the U.S. Army Service Forces...
Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands...
And so it goes, with Harry Zinder and Fillmore Calhoun waiting in the Middle East for the British Ninth Army to start its long-looked-for move into the Balkans-with William Fisher and James Shepley in India and Teddy White in Chungking, waiting for Lord Louis Mountbatten to take...
Reports from Chungking indicated that the Japs took the threats seriously: fresh troops moved into the Arakan district on the Bay of Bengal; supplies poured into the Salween front on the Burma-China border.
Major General Claire Chennault was hung with the D.F.C. in his parlor in Chungking. Ceremonial participants: four generals, two Chinese houseboys, and Chennault's dachshund, Joe.