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...misery of China's peasants, filth, disease, widespread begging, shocked raw young Americans. Their own discomforts -the mud, the lack of women, the food-rubbed them rawer still. They heard ugly stories-of Lend-Lease material being stored for use after the war instead of against the Jap, of hoarding and profiteering by merchants, of smuggling from India and trade with the Japanese, of excessive tax burdens on the peasants...
...General has only one ambition: to beat Japan. He well knew what Roosevelt, Churchill, the Gissimo meant when they said this week that "serious and prolonged operations" would be necessary (see p. 32). Chennault's hatred of the Jap is deep and fierce. He broods over his hard task, listens sympathetically when his officers say: "The way to kill flies is to pour gasoline on maggots where they breed. Flyswatter stuff isn't going to win the war." Chennault knows that maggots breed within the great cities of Japan, and that the only place from which they...
...swept out to sea echeloned in a single long line to the right, then dropped down until the ocean surface almost touched the bellies of our planes and the props lifted spray into the air, filling our mouths with a salty taste. . . . The first sign of action was a Jap multi-motored plane staining the sky with smoke as it fell into the sea. A P-38 had dropped on it from above. Almost within spitting distance a green Zero with red balls on its wings came up bravely beneath our tail, climbing and wheeling at the same time...
...preceded us over the airport by a matter of seconds, diving to strafe the field. I peered out the side blister as we made our run and counted 14 Jap planes burning, bursting outward like brilliant red buds and then flowering into orange and black coronas...
...When we left eight minutes later, the coast was shrouded with black smoke. We had literally devastated the great airdrome, shattered ground installations, strafed startled and fleeing Jap ground troops. We destroyed or damaged in the air or on the ground an estimated 50 Japanese bombers and fighters. Every American plane returned safely and not a single American or Chinese on the raid was injured...