Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final 20 minutes, Kukan offers the most awesome bombing sequence yet filmed of World War II. The target is Chungking on Aug. 19 and 20, 1940. While scores of Japanese bombers poured some 200 tons of bombs into the defenseless city, Photographer Scott stood on the roof of the American Embassy 800 yards from the sector where most of them fell, and made his color shots. They are infinitely more frightening than a black-&-white bombing. The camera pans from the neat Japanese formations of 36 planes in threes in the blue sky to the crimson splash of bursting bombs...
...Formosa to Canton, then over French Indo-China to Bangkok in pro-Japanese Thailand. The eastern and western arms of their airlines form a giant horseshoe around the Philippines (see map). To gain these far-flung routes Japan used fat subsidies, even bullets. They shot down at least two defenseless, passenger-carrying planes of competing China National Aviation...
...other hand, if a British pilot had seen him, he, too, could have downed the Messerschmidt. The long period of daylight in Scotland would have enabled the R.A.F. flyer to catch and down the defenseless German...
From the military point of view, also, the Libyan campaign left some unfinished business. The worst nuisance was German air activity. Last week for the first time, the R. A. F. revealed that not only were comparatively defenseless Junkers Stukas and Heinkel bombers being used by the Germans over Libya, but also some up-to-the-minute Messerschmitt fighters to cover them. In unconquered Libya there were still three important air bases-Homs, Misurata, Castel Benito (near Tripoli). But for the most part the Germans were operating out of Sicily...
...attacked the old Chinese capital of Peking in 1937, swarms of Chinese limped to the city wall, dazed, half-naked, riddled with wounds. Hidden under the wall was the only first-aid station in the city. Their case was typical. For the 450,000,000 souls of swarming, near-defenseless China, there were only 9,000 adequately trained doctors. Most of them were trained in Britain, Europe or the U. S. Their colleague-competitors were native medicine men, who used such ancient practices as "acupuncture"-sticking patients with scores of hot & cold needles to let out evil spirits...