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...Hengyang, railroad junction and key point in the southeast China airdrome system, moved a flight from the Twenty-Third Pursuit Group fresh from the Chungking fight. They made the 500-mile run because China's espionage system had told them the Jap would hit there next...
...attacks on Japanese outposts and circled their fields, daring them to come out and fight. Finally they did. These tactics and others, all part of a secret and tricky plan of their commander, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, fighting under resourceful Lieutenant General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell, finally led the Jap to get on with his bombing...
...Lure Works. At 1:30 on a moonlit morning the Jap sent over four bombers, and the U.S. pursuit was up to meet them, well south of town...
Fire from the burning planes flared above the city and two Jap airmen plummeted cometlike to the ground as the fire from their flaming clothes spread to their chutes. But Allison was in trouble, too. His damaged engine was rattling. He headed for the Hsiang River, skittered over a log, set the ship down in the water. Chinese fished...
Charged Denman: 1) From 50,000 to 100,000 people might perish in an enemy-set fare engulfing San Francisco's wooden structures, with the prevailing west wind; 2) the heavy inbound blanket of summer fog invites a Jap attack; 3) telltale water outlines make an efficacious blackout impossible; 4) the fire department could not cope with incendiary bombs; 5) the military had discouraged a systematic tryout of the city's air raid sirens...