Word: hainan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Nationalist. China crumbling in 1948, Chennault loaded his Shanghai maintenance base onto a converted LST, fled first to Canton, then to Hainan, on to Hong Kong and finally across the Formosa Strait to Formosa, where CAT has stayed ever since. Flying along the perimeter of Red Asia, Chennault and CAT staked their entire future in 1949 on a coup to keep 71 planes of two Chinese national airlines from falling into Red hands. When the crews defected, leaving most of the transports at Hong Kong's airport, Chennault and his friends signed notes...
...would make. But she also showed plainly,
in rationing out her favors, that she was in full control of her
emotions. In three moves, Peking: <| Agreed without haggling to
Britain's demand for ?367,000 ($1,027,600) compensation for shooting
down a Cathay Pacific Skymaster off Hainan Island last July 23, in
which ten passengers (three of them American) lost their lives. Peking
has rejected three U.S. protests, but took the British protest in good
grace and even promised that "measures have been taken to prevent
recurrence of such incidents."
Like all commercial airliners, the Cathay Pacific Skymaster (a Douglas DC-4), bound from Bangkok to Hong Kong, was making the usual detour around Communist-held Hainan Island early one morning last week. It was well out to sea, in the approved international corridor. Suddenly, two prop-driven fighters, the red markings bright on their cream-colored paint, flew up alongside, dropped back, and stitched through the airliner from behind with cannon and machine-gun fire. The Skymaster's outboard port engine caught fire; the next burst knocked out the outboard starboard engine, and set the wing tanks ablaze...
...Penang. 2. Hong Kong. 3. Shantung. 4. Hainan. 5. Celebes...
...more than just another chunk of territory (about twice the size of New Jersey, 3,000,000 population) for the vast Red Asiatic domain. In their conquest of Southeast Asia, the Japanese had found Hainan valuable as a base and a staging area for troop movements. The new Red imperialists could put it to similar uses, increasing their threat to Indo-China and other countries touching the South China Sea. However, the immediate significance of Hainan's fall was that it furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles...