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Unlike the Japanese Army, which has built itself a pretty sordid record in China, Isoroku Yamamoto's Navy displaces better than its own weight in pride, and he has grown up with that pride. He graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in time to lose the first and second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Yamamoto v. the Dragon | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Chief hope of Hong Kong was the Chinese army. Early reports had stated that Chiang Kai-shek himself was leading crack troops to the relief of the encircled islanders. This was unlikely but Chungking announced later that one of China's toughest war heroes, General Tsai Ting-kai, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: No Surrender | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

The China National Aviation Corp. has never carried breech blocks for Chungking anti-aircraft guns, or any other cargo which would jeopardize its position as a purely commercial line. This position has the complete support of the Chinese Government.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1941 | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

When his plane came down at Burbank, it landed beside the great Lockheed and Vega plants that cover nearly 400 acres. Hundreds of war planes, complete and incomplete, stood in the fields outside the guarded buildings. TWA's stratoliner roared off with him toward the darkening east, above the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Enormous Room | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

"There is always the possibility, even the probability, of a direct march on the Burma Road. America's choice between letting Chungking down or keeping Chungking up would be solved automatically, for it could not assist Chiang Kai-shek's party if the sole remaining major avenue of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Pinch Hitter | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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