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...desperate for all they could carry, and for the combat planes and ground crews that other pilots were ferrying over northern Burma. The Chinese still had 50 miles of railroad in east China, which denied the Japanese the use of the line between Shanghai and the south. But the Jap had taken the last of three fine airfields prepared by the Chinese in Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces against the day when the Americans would come with bombers. Now in Chungking, China's leaders looked to Burma and the clammy cloud of the monsoon...
...trimmings of tough flying went with the water-hail, sleet, air that was rougher than an Oklahoma line squall, terrain on which (said the pilots) a bird would break his legs in a forced landing. Yet the Chungking Ferry ran almost daily, riding instruments, dodging the Jap, who came up when there were holes in the weather...
...Chungking Ferry carries everything: bombs, guns, ammo, medical supplies, even gasoline for the thin stores of China, even though the quantity carried is only a drop in the bucket. Its planes fly unarmed, crawl into clouds or hedgehop through the valleys when the Jap jumps them up, hoping the A.V.G. will come out to rescue them. When the A.V.G. is busy elsewhere, they manage to get through anyhow...
Occasionally they have intimate contact with the Jap, who sets his radios on the same frequency the Ferry uses. The Jap speaks English, hisses his bitterness at the freighters as he chases them, promises wrathfully to give them a tea party, meaning that he will soon visit one of their India bases, which are surrounded by tea plantations. But the routine the U.S. pilots like best is the patter they use when they have outlegged the Jap and come within range of their destination...
What were the Japs doing in their newly won footholds in the western Aleutians, the bleak little islands of Attu and Kiska? If the U.S. Army & Navy knew, they did not say. So the only news was from the Tokyo radio, and that was positively insulting. The Jap broadcasts said that Attu and Kiska had been renamed Atsuta and Narukam; that vegetable seeds and potatoes had been shipped in and that "this alone reveals that our action was not meant to be merely temporary"; that Japanese Navy headquarters had sent congratulations to the unnamed "supreme commander of ground forces...