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...means Votes in November." Other culprits: the labor lobby, the anti-labor bloc, the silver bloc, all kinds of blocs. Said the Citizens For Victory, taking shame for the nation: "December 7-Bataan-our sailors gasping for air and drowning in oil-our boys diving their lines out on Jap battleships-all have made no difference. Surely this is not the voice of the real America...
Colonel Caleb V. Haynes led us to a huge Chinese map and let his finger come to rest on the town of Kiukiang, the strategic Japanese-held Yangtze River port below Hankow. Chinese Intelligence had reported that 30,000 Jap troops were concentrating there for a move toward Hankow...
...fire; balls of red flecked with white began shooting toward our plane. Japanese ack-ack guns and pom-poms were throwing everything but the kitchen sink at us. Then our plane began to tremble and shake, and from our belly red balls of fire began shooting down toward the Jap ship. Puffs of white smoke flowered in the air far below our plane. They were so far away I couldn't help laughing, but plainly we could see our tracers going straight into the Jap ship. Soon it ceased firing altogether...
...Force in China was still pitifully small-a few fighters, fewer bombers. Most of the fields painfully prepared by the patient Chinese were still idle; some had been taken by the Jap. But the Air Force was at work. What it had accomplished under the command of seam-faced Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault made the Chinese feel warm all over...
...their four-hour talk over the coffee cups, he must have told "the Boss" plenty about the Jap as a fighting man, about Japanese aerial tactics in operation, about the comparative merits of U.S. and Axis air and sea equipment. But outside the White House, Representative Johnson had only one comment: "There is one thing they are not short on out there, and that is courage and guts and fighting spirit. They've got plenty of that...