Word: hengyang
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...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...
...Hengyang, railroad junction and key point in the southeast China airdrome system, moved a flight from the Twenty-Third Pursuit Group fresh from the Chungking fight. They made the 500-mile run because China's espionage system had told them the Jap would hit there next...
China's spies were right. After a few tentative passes at the city, the enemy sent over three smashing raids-more than 100 planes in all. Hengyang's defenders were only ten and they fought in the moonlight as well as by day. Within 32 hours they could count at least ten crack Zeroes among the 17 planes they had knocked down. Their own loss: one plane, crash-landed; no pilot...
...Lure. For several days before the enemy turned on Hengyang, Major Tex Hill, formerly of the A.V.G., and Major John Allison of Gainesville, Fla., had launched pin-pricking attacks on Japanese outposts and circled their fields, daring them to come out and fight. Finally they did. These tactics and others, all part of a secret and tricky plan of their commander, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, fighting under resourceful Lieutenant General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell, finally led the Jap to get on with his bombing...