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...from the ground, throwing flights into the air at the exact time and place for perfect interception of Jap forces. With more bombers and fighters now, he concentrates on overall tactics, shifting his planes in a pattern as intricate as a ballet. The Japanese, hitting back from their Formosa, Hankow, Canton and Indo-China bases, have learned much from their two years of combat with Chennault...
...retaliate for a bombing of Hankow in which U.S. Liberator bombers shot down 35 of 50 intercepting Zeros, the Jap air force last week ordered 47 planes over Chungking to give the Chinese provisional capital its first raid in almost two years. Three times opposed on their way, only about 30 planes reached the Chungking area, where Chinese pilots took them on. Jap bombs fell outside the city limits, did little damage. Reported ex-Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: "Among the targets most valiantly attacked . . . were rice fields, vegetable gardens, flower gardens, one dammed-up swimming...
...last week. A month ago the Chinese thrust the enemy back through the flatlands to the north bank of the Yangtze (TIME, June 14). The enemy had time to fortify only three small towns-Owchihkow, Shihshow and Hwajung, which they seized in March. The towns cover river communications between Hankow and Shasi...
...mouth of the Yangtze gorges, the Chinese and Japanese were engaged in the most furious fighting since Burma fell. Only a few authentic facts of the battle could be learned. A fortnight before, the Japanese had launched a drive in Central China (TIME, May 31). Scouring the triangle between Hankow and the Yangtze gorges of marauding guerrillas, they secured bases on the northern shores of Tungting Lake in such places as Mitushih, Hwajung and Yuayung, then drove west across the flatlands under a withering curtain of aerial strafing...
...Japanese push was surging westward along the Yangtze River. Immediate objectives seemed to be: 1) clearing the river between Hankow and Ichang; 2) seizing control of the western outlet of the 120-mile stretch of Yangtze gorges through which Chinese supplies are fed to the central front...