Word: hengyang
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...brown earth of an airdrome near Hengyang, in southeast China, lay the shattered Zero fighter of a Japanese flight commander. In the grey streets of Hengyang city, in hundreds of broken bits, were splashed the remains of Japanese B-4 bombers. Round the city, in the fields and hills, were the fire-blackened skeletons of other Jap ships. All 17 of them were evidence of the Jap's fate when he gave up bombing Chungking after one attempt and tried another target...
...official review listed the A.V.G. score: 284 Jap planes destroyed in seven months, as many more probably destroyed, ten A.V.G. pilots and one crew chief killed in action, nine flyers killed in accidents. An A.V.G. squadron had a last flight, shooting down at least six Japs over Hengyang. The Generalissimo gave a dinner for General Chennault. Then, as they all knew it must, came July 4 and with it the formal end of the American Volunteer Group...
...junks or freighters on beaches at minor ports anywhere along the coast in small shipments, proceed inland through the countryside by a kind of osmosis, in carts or slung on bamboo poles between two coolies. Not until they are well away from the coast are supplies concentrated along the Hengyang (southern Hunan) Railroad that takes them upcountry...