Word: honan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safe back at the Twentieth Bomber Command's China base after thirty-six hours of wandering just a few miles behind the Honan battlefront where the B-29 I was in crash-landed flying back from Japan bombing. I spent most of the time with crew members working out a scheme to avoid being captured by Japs, while Jap fighters and bombers throughout the morning mercilessly strafed and bombed the ship into a total wreck. I fortunately escaped any injury. I hope my story on bombing will reach you in time for publication. (It did. See WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...Japanese continually reported clashes with the Communists, he snapped: "If you believe the Japs, why is America fighting Japan?" Lo Tse-kai denied that his troops had ever received Lend-Lease aid, though as he spoke a flight of U.S.-built planes roared overhead, enroute to the Honan front...
Tragedy's Lessons. Defeat in Honan bore lessons: wars cannot be fought without weapons; a long stalemate poisons an army's morale and strength. Honan's defenders were ill-armed, lulled into apathy by six years of relative inaction...
...great as the Army's tragedy was that of Honan's tall, patient peasants. After years of famine, this year's crop was rich and fat, all but ready for the harvest. Just before the Japanese struck, plans had been completed to move 1,000,000 Ib. of poison spray into Honan to check the inroads of locusts. Now the plans lost meaning: what the locust spares, the Japanese will take...
Unlike the army of Honan, this "was a first-rate fighting force,'partly equipped with U.S. howitzers and mortars, partly led by U.S.-trained officers, commanded by the seasoned veteran, General Wei Li-huang, whom his men call "100-victory Wei." Effective air support came from Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force...