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...Chinese in northern Burma had been ambushed and harassed by Jap patrols. The Anglo-American anvil chorus began again to beat out the familiar refrain: the Chinese cannot fight...
...Vinegar Joe" could see, nothing had gone wrong. Under his eye, the Chinese fought well. Their artillery mor tars laid down effective cross fire on Jap trenches, the infantry charged bravely with grenades and rifles. One Chinese soldier penetrated a Jap dugout and, pulling the pin in his grenade, blew himself and three Japs to kingdom come. In four days the Chinese killed an estimated 300 Japs, drove the rest south. Jubilant Chinese presented Stilwell with a captured Samurai sword. Jubilant Stilwell returned to India...
...week's beginning Marine Major Gregory Boyington (TIME, Jan. 10) got his 26th Jap plane in aerial combat, tied the American records of Eddie Rickenbacker and Marine Joe Foss. But the mark is still to be broken...
Over New Britain, U.S. fighter pilots saw their squadron leader, 23-year-old Army Major Edward Cragg Jr. (TIME, Nov. 29), close with a silver Jap fighter, knew he had found the man he had been looking for. Major Cragg, second ranking U.S. ace in the Southwest Pacific (17 planes), for days had been still-hunting the Jap pilot who had apparently shot down about a dozen U.S. craft...
...airmen caught a glimpse of the Jap flashing by, saw the swatch of American flags painted on his engine cowling. There was no time to watch the fight but they saw the end. Ed Cragg's plane went down smoking, crashed into...