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...most dangerous, most important mission the task force had yet undertaken. Unlike most other raids in China, this one required a flight across treacherous mountains, through heavy weather, and an. approach over enemy-held Indo-China territory. If the Jap spotted the force on its way to Haiphong he would have time to send fighters from Canton and Hanoi to intercept it on the way home. Nonetheless, stout, scowling Colonel Caleb Haynes, boss of General Chennault's bombers, set out to hit Haiphong with everything...
That was not all. Never resting, within one short day Chennault's men flew to the port of Canton (see col. 1), where the Jap had entrenched himself along the Pearl River; attacked the Japanese base at Hankow; pounded Jap-held points at Nanchang, Sienning and Yochow on the Canton-Hankow railway...
...week was the climax to five weeks of constant harassing which General Chennault's Army Air Forces-nicknamed Sky Dragons by the Chinese-had given the Jap...
...perform. They accomplished what they did by courage, by surprise, and through the coaching of the smart and experienced General Chennault. They had only a few more planes than the old Flying Tigers, who rarely had more than 50 ships fit to fly. They still could not challenge the Jap's mastery of the air. But at last China's armies had eyes to see with; they no longer moved like blind worms mercilessly pecked at by birds overhead. Now the Jap had to endure his share of pecking...
Fortnight ago, for the first time in China's five-year-old war, the Chinese Army made an attack with air support. Fighter planes of General Chennault's 23rd Pursuit Group, carrying medium bombs strapped to their wings, flew over Linchwan, smashed the Jap headquarters, barracks and supply depots as Chinese on the ground launched their attack. Chinese troops cleared out the nearby town of Huwan, fought their way into Linchwan's suburbs. Last week the fight was still going on, while the Sky Dragons harried Jap supply lines and reinforcements...