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Good Shows, Good Showman. It was no surprise to the Chinese that the fighter commander, lanky Colonel Robert L. Scott Jr., rode up front in the forays. Colonel Scott, only 34, had worked subordinately as a wingman with the A.V.G.s to learn the tricks of Jap fighting. Older than most of the Flying Tiger men, he was still of their breed and generation, had the right amount of calculating recklessness...
...more destructive raids, gave the spirit of China a big lift. From secret bases behind the gorges of the Yangtze, bombers thundered down the river and, above Hankow's two big airfields, released their bombs in symbolic, as well as practical, destruction. It was principally from Hankow that Jap planes drove Chungking underground for two bitter years...
...China flyers ranged farther. On another raid they swept down river to Kiu-kiang (see p. 25), broke up a Jap concentration. They punched at Nanchang and, it was reported, at Hong Kong. Greatest wonder of all: they ranged southeast all the way to Canton, caught the Jap's planes on the ground, blasted 50 to 60 of them to bits. This week, over Szechwan, they broke up a 50-plane Jap bombing party headed for Chungking...
Antidote to Weariness. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of all U.S. forces in China, did not release all the details of their raids. But the Chinese at last had something to beam about. The Jap air force was staying on the ground-whether from fright or because its planes were busy elsewhere, no one knew. Therefore living habits in thousands of towns in southwest China could be, and were, changed. Stores and shops reopened...
...Chinese Army on the ground was galvanized too. In the complicated mazes of China's fluid tactical plan it had never stopped fighting, but now it fought with new heart. It slashed into the Jap in the north (see p. 21) and in the east, particularly in Kiangsi Province, where by a series of explosive sallies it made the Jap's life miserable. It shook his hold from the eastern railroad net, sliced a big piece out of the vital Chekiang-Kiangsi railway he had spent so much blood to win. From Shensi Province in the inland north...