Word: fourteenth
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...longer felt that they had been fobbed off with nothing but promises. U.S. and British forces on the Burma fringe, U.S. airmen in China had done what they could for China (and for the Allied cause). Millions of U.S. dollars had been poured into China to provision the Fourteenth Air Force, bolster China's strained finance. But Erh Ch'i-July 7, the Double Seventh, the seventh day of the seventh month-would not be a happy day for the Chinese. It had not been a happy day since 1937, when the Japanese chose the Double Seventh...
They brought the Allied pursuit to a walk halfway between Rome and Florence, gave the battered Tenth and Fourteenth German Armies time to collect their wits. For the first time since the breakthrough below Rome, the Germans made counter attacks...
...support the Chinese, Claire Chennault's tiny Fourteenth Air Force did its gallant best. More than 1,000 sorties were flown in a week* against river shipping and roads clogged with Jap columns. But the Fourteenth's forces were spread thin over a big and complicated theater...
...Franklin Pierce, fourteenth U.S. President...
Said an Allied spokesman: "Scattered remnants of the German Fourteenth are mainly engaged in stealing one another's transport, to get away as fast as possible...