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...such description could apply to the work of the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force last week. In three raids, Mitchell bombers with a fighter cover of Warhawks bombed the Kowloon docks, across the bay from Hong Kong, destroyed an estimated 25,000 tons of Jap shipping. In all raids during this period against Jap-held China bases, U.S. planes shot down at least 78 Jap planes, lost only eight...
Robert Kenneth Chennault, 18-year-old youngest son of the Fourteenth Air Force's Commander, reported for induction in Shreveport. The armed forces now have all six Chennault boys...
...grin last week. To India, without previous announcement, went able, soldierly Major General George E. Stratemeyer, fresh from his post as Chief of Staff for General H. H. Arnold in Washington. His new job: chief air officer in the India-Burma-China theater (comprising the Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces...
...first birthday of the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force in China, its commander, Major General Claire Chennault, said: "During the next year you men will fly over Japan itself many times...
...armies for medicines and munitions, the creeping paralysis of transport. The only major Japanese military drive this year-the campaign in western Hupeh-has been smashed. The Chinese Air Force has taken the air for the first time in several years, shot down enemy planes, cooperated with the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force...