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The Japanese radio poured poison into Chungking. Where were the planes, the pilots, the bombs the U.S. had promised China? Why all the painful, handmade preparation of airdromes for U.S. airmen who would never come? Jap bombers would wreck the fields, the Japanese army would capture them, before the Americans...
Day after day U.S. Army Air Forces officers in Chungking heard such Japanese broadcasts, kept their wrath and the biggest news of China's war to themselves. The news was that there actually was a small U.S. air force in China and that the force was growing bit by...
"While we were operating after the bombing-I had four operating tables going at once with nurses finishing the operations after I had done the most essential part, and Koi [one of the nurses] operating on her own-General Stilwell came in and watched us without our knowing he was...
To London, Chungking. U.S. ocean air freight began with a bang last January when the Army requisitioned TWA's five 22½-ton Boeing Stratoliners. Scores of 12½ton Douglas DC-3 airline transports were drafted from the airlines, sent around the nation, to Alaska, Britain, Greenland, Africa...
China Will Hoard. The commodity scarcity undoubtedly still continues to lead people to hoard. Medicines today give the best chances of profits for smugglers and hoarders. The Government gives air priority from India to medicine, saying: "Three tons of quinine are worth three tons of guns." To counteract hoarding, the...