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...city's commander, General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted aides, was receiving China's pitiful best in reinforcements, arms and food. Kweilin and its strange hills, like inverted ice cream cones, began to bristle with improvised defenses: coolies dug broad trenches in the city's streets and vacant lots. The stage was set for the biggest, most fateful battle since Hankow...
Young and Cocky. Fighting Two started out with young and cocky confidence. Their emblem was a green dragon tearing a Jap flag to shreds. "Mom" Chung, the servicemen's devoted foster mother in San Francisco (TIME, Sept. 11), had designed it for them, especially for their leader, Commander William A. Dean Jr. They called themselves the "Rippers...
...mustered since Hengyang (which withstood siege for 41 days). The city had miles of barbed wire entanglements; pillboxes fashioned from torndown buildings. It had the best fed, best armed, best uniformed soldiers remaining among China's tattered legions. For commander it had bald, white-gloved General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Kwangsi Province's best, fresh from talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To aid Pai, General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell sent every ounce of U.S. small arms, mortars and ammunition that could be spared from the tonnage flown over the Hump...
...more energetic foreign policy, with special emphasis on improving relations with Soviet Russia. (Chungking made a gesture in this direction last month when Sinkiang's anti-Soviet governor Shen Shihtsai was replaced by General Wu Chung-hsin, an expert conciliator. His nickname: Ho-shih-laoor"Old-Man-Smooth-lt-Over...
...Margaret ("Mom") Chung is a famed San Francisco doctor. In 1931, seven flyers, turned down by the Navy, asked her help to get them into the Chinese air force, and formed the "Flying Sons of Mom Chung." When unmarried Dr. Chung pointed out that this made them all illegitimate, they changed the organization's name to the "Fair-haired Bastards of Dr. Chung." Among Allied pilots, there are now 659 such bastards...