Word: hainan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knock Out the Runway. Since Jimmy Doolittle's deed of April 18, the Japanese have been quite naturally obsessed by fear that the United Nations will use China as a base for large-scale bombing attacks on Japan, as well as on Formosa, Hainan, Indo-China and other Japanese outpost bases. Particularly suited for such use would be the peninsula of Shantung Province, which reaches out toward Japan like an angry fist, and the great bulge of Chekiang Province, within four-motor range of half of Japan...
...Japan proclaimed her "New Order in Asia." ("Japan . . . is devoting her energy to the establishment of a new order based on genuine international justice throughout East Asia.") Feb. II, 1939. Japan's troops seized China's Hainan Island, off the eastern coast of French Indo-China. Explanation: a "military necessity" to cut off war supplies from China...
...anchorage which can be made in time into a naval base) the Japanese now can more easily cut the British sea route from Singapore to Hong Kong. Moreover, they have a central position from which to intercept fleet movements between Manila and Singapore. With Japanese bases in Indo-China, Hainan, Formosa and the mandated islands to the east of the Philippines, Manila is now almost encircled by Japanese outposts...
...mile strip of South China coast between Hong Kong and the Indo-China border. It was intended: 1) to menace one of free China's best supply lines; 2) to help isolate British Hong Kong; 3) to strengthen the position of the large Japanese garrison on Hainan Island just off the coast; 4) to make a nasty threatening face at Indo-China just across the Gulf of Tonkin...
...Admiral Osumi was nevertheless also a stout advocate of the Japanese Navy's southward urge to empire. At week's end Chungking said that the plane had been shot down by guerrilla machine gunners, that the wreckage had yielded papers showing that Admiral Osumi was flying toward Hainan Island, off the south China coast, there to steer the united Japanese south China Sea Fleet on a southward drive...