Word: hengyang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hengyang Holds Out. About 100,000 Japanese had fought down 100 miles from Changsha past Hengyang, straddling the Hankow-Canton railway on a 50-mile front (see map). In the face of Chinese high command blunders and confusion, the Japanese power reached farther south in this area than ever before. North to meet them from Canton drove another Japanese force. If the two joined, China would be split by a Japanese-garrisoned railway...
...bypassed Hengyang the Chinese Tenth Army held out with desperate courage. It fed on the city's rice stores, kept up the fight with well worn guns, and ammunition parachuted by the Fourteenth U.S. Air Force. At the same time Major General Claire L. Chennault's planes ripped Japanese communications...
Then the Chinese Army turned on counterpressure. New troops came in from other districts, attacks grew sharper. In the face of this opposition the Japanese apparently began to withdraw. There were even reports that siege lines around Hengyang were cracking...
...swept westward to buttress their holdings against attack. They had driven south through ruined Changsha, contested for the fourth time in five years. They marched on through quiet little Hengshan, near the five sacred Buddhist mountains. This week they pierced the outer gates of a vital rail junction, Hengyang-most important city sought by the Japanese since Canton and Hankow...
...move out of Dr. C.'s hospital. Somehow the Chinese always came up with a vehicle, hurried them on their way. At Choo Chow Lishui (where Lawson had planned to land after bombing Tokyo) the airport was blown up. At Nanching the field was destroyed. They pulled into Hengyang, pushed on to Kweilin. The Flying Tigers had already moved...