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U.S. and Chinese officers clustered around the plotting boards. Other warning stations reported. The Jap was headed for Chungking, was only half an hour away. A black ball replaced the lantern on the warning poles, and Chungking's patient thousands trudged to the dugouts, where 25,000 A.R.P. workers...
On airdromes and dispersal fields Chinese attendants ran from one group of pilots to another calling "One-ball jin bad" (one-ball air raid). The pilots climbed into their cockpits. The pursuits began to move, wheeling out of dust clouds in clots of threes, whirring down the runways. In the...
The Jap never got to Chungking. It was moonlight when the fighters met his 50 bombers somewhere east of the city, and no fighter could be sure that the bomber he started smoking with his tracers actually went down. But the bomber formations broke and their pilots struck for home...
On the red-brown earth of an airdrome near Hengyang, in southeast China, lay the shattered Zero fighter of a Japanese flight commander. In the grey streets of Hengyang city, in hundreds of broken bits, were splashed the remains of Japanese B-4 bombers. Round the city, in the fields...
To Hengyang, railroad junction and key point in the southeast China airdrome system, moved a flight from the Twenty-Third Pursuit Group fresh from the Chungking fight. They made the 500-mile run because China's espionage system had told them the Jap would hit there next.