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...line, broke into the pass of Yuyangkwan, ousted a Japanese garrison and sent troops hotfoot after the Japanese retreating toward the east. The Chinese Air Force, for the first time in three years, was making an all-out effort to support ground operations, and elements of America's Fourteenth Air Force moved up to the Central China area for strategic bombing...
...combat arms of Allied power, the Fourteenth Air Force alone stands within striking distance of the soft exposed vitals of the Japanese Empire. The recent arrival of a fleet of four-motored Liberator bombers enabled the Fourteenth Air Force last week to strike harder and deeper than ever before at those vitals...
...supply road to China lies through Jap-held Burma, where the British had failed in their preliminary campaign to win a bridgehead for later operations (TIME, April 19). Last week the Commander of the Fourteenth, Major General Claire Chennault, and his superior in the China theater, Lieut. General Joseph E. Stilwell, undoubtedly included the prospects for reopening Burma in the agenda of their staff talks in Washington...
...General Chennault is doing the best he can, with the little he has, to whittle down Jap air power in China. Last week he revealed a significant fact. To relieve sorely strained U.S. crews and to make up for the lack of sufficient replacements from the U.S., the Fourteenth is absorbing competent Chinese pilots and crews. The General had personally trained some of them. Said he: "I defy the Japs to tell Chinese from Americans in combat...
...Fourteenth day. . . . [I] climb up on the wing and see two men coming over the rise in single file. Then there appears a third, fourth and finally a fifth...