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Major General Claire Lee Chennault, 54, genius of U.S. air power in China, quit his job last week. In Kunming he announced that he had resigned as commander of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force. He said he planned to retire from the Army and return...
Chinese troops followed up their capture of the Fourteenth Air Force base city of Liuchow (TIME, July 9) by closing in on four other onetime U.S. air bases-Paoking, Tanchuk, Kanhsien and "Kweilin. On the Indo-Chinese frontier, mountain troops extended their front to 160 miles. But at week's end Chungking reported one setback: Japanese marines had landed on the Chinese-held southeast coast, presumably to reinforce Amoy's depleted garrison...
...sudden spurt of activity, Chinese troops last week captured Weichow Island, off the South China coast, pierced French Indo-China on a 100-mile front and pushed to within 150 miles of Shanghai. But their biggest success was the recapture of the key city of Liuchow, onetime Fourteenth Air Force base. From that war front, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White radioed...
...lobby billboard advertised "brilliant men, beautiful jazz babies, champagne baths, midnight revels, petting parties in the purple dawn." Across the nation, marquees blazed with titles like Red Hot Romance, Give Her Anything, The Fourteenth Lover. Hollywood was being denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate and censorship bills were being pressed in 36 state capitols...
According to all sources here, the Japs used the route for local traffic only. Occasionally troops moved to Liuchow 100 miles north, or Indo-China 100 miles south. But the Fourteenth Air Force kept the roads useless. Frequently the Japs were forced to rely upon files of impressed Chinese coolies, hauling sacks of bullets to the Indo-China garrisons...