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TIME Correspondent Jack Belden last week cabled this firsthand account of a U.S. Army air force raid on a big Japanese base below Hankow on the Yangtze River...
Colonel Caleb V. Haynes led us to a huge Chinese map and let his finger come to rest on the town of Kiukiang, the strategic Japanese-held Yangtze River port below Hankow. Chinese Intelligence had reported that 30,000 Jap troops were concentrating there for a move toward Hankow...
Below us spread hills and trails over which I had retreated in 1938 with Chinese armies driven back upon Hankow by the great Japanese force seeking to capture the Yangtze Valley and conquer China by one blow. It was almost like coming home. Mountains gave way to hills and around about their bases lapped greyish yellow waters. The Yangtze is in flood and we are drawing near our target, I thought. I crawled through the tunnel under the pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose...
...small for anything but occasional, unannounced sorties. Not until July 6 did General Joseph W. Stilwell, the top U.S. Commander in China, take off the lid with his Communique No. 1, announcing that the U.S. Army Air Forces were operating in China. Army bombers had struck at Hankow, Canton, Nanchang. U.S. Army fighters had escorted the bombers, downing Jap planes and scorching Jap fields...
...theater, in Chekiang Province, where the Japanese Army wants to seize airfield's within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw. A new spearhead pushed north from the Canton area. China's Chekiang-Kiangsi and Hankow-Canton railroads were eaten up mile by hard-fought mile. Yet Chiang was optimistic...