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...appreciate it were Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, who had been represented in Hengyang by U.S. Army men on special duty,*and Major General Claire L. Chennault of the Fourteenth U.S. Air Force...
Ponce acted as though he were keeping the government in trust for Ubico and fired very few of his men. According to one story, Ubico himself did not flee to Mexico, as first reported, but simply retired to a private house on the capital's Fourteenth...
...bypassed Hengyang the Chinese Tenth Army held out with desperate courage. It fed on the city's rice stores, kept up the fight with well worn guns, and ammunition parachuted by the Fourteenth U.S. Air Force. At the same time Major General Claire L. Chennault's planes ripped Japanese communications...
...Japanese were withdrawing it was hard to understand why. They had all the advantages of supply, training, equipment. If they really were falling back it could only be because of overwhelming Chinese numerical superiority (as high as 4-to-1), because of the total air supremacy of the Fourteenth, which in four weeks flew as many missions as it had in the previous five months...
Year V. In Pearl Harbor's wake, China briefly exulted, then despaired. Within six months the Japs took the Philippines, Singapore, the Indies, Burma. Their ring around China was complete. The U.S. was very busy elsewhere. General Claire Chennault's A.V.G., the feeble beginnings of the Fourteenth Air Force, were gallant mockeries of China's first hopes. But China hung...