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They met the Jap near Kokoda (where there is a usable airdrome) and stopped him. The enemy seemed confused at the kind of opposition he got. He came in force upon one small Allied patrol, saw it melt into the jungle before he could fire a shot. The little infantrymen fanned out and sprayed the underbrush with tommy-gun fire. They shouted: "You come, you come." But the patrol did not come. It pulled out without losing...
...tiny U.S. air force in China was not yet strong enough to keep up a steady offensive thrust against the enemy. But it was stout enough in fighter strength to meet the Jap when it found him. Last week it found him every time, and found him before he was able to get at his bombing objectives. For that, the few remaining veterans of A.V.G. and the youngsters of the Army Air Forces' Twenty-Third Pursuit Group could thank the wondrous Chinese air-raid warning system...
...Chinese officers clustered around the plotting boards. Other warning stations reported. The Jap was headed for Chungking, was only half an hour away. A black ball replaced the lantern on the warning poles, and Chungking's patient thousands trudged to the dugouts, where 25,000 A.R.P. workers distributed "air defense cakes" of wheat and corn flour...
...Jap never got to Chungking. It was moonlight when the fighters met his 50 bombers somewhere east of the city, and no fighter could be sure that the bomber he started smoking with his tracers actually went down. But the bomber formations broke and their pilots struck for home-all but four, which plowed on toward Chungking. Near the edge of the city the fighters caught them. They jettisoned their bombs in open fields and streaked away. From its dugouts, after three hours, Chungking emerged. Its cakes had been eaten, its morale bolstered by what U.S. flyers, with Chinese help...
...southeast China, lay the shattered Zero fighter of a Japanese flight commander. In the grey streets of Hengyang city, in hundreds of broken bits, were splashed the remains of Japanese B-4 bombers. Round the city, in the fields and hills, were the fire-blackened skeletons of other Jap ships. All 17 of them were evidence of the Jap's fate when he gave up bombing Chungking after one attempt and tried another target...