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...last. Chungking announced that U.S. bombers would be flown to Chinese fronts by Colonel Caleb Haynes, who has been running the air ferry to China from India. Carolina-born, 47, Colonel Haynes is a crack airman who once, from his transport plane, fought off a Jap fighter with a tommy...
According to one estimate, the Jap has hardly more than 300 planes in China-although, of course, he is putting them to maximum use. U.S. bombers-and more fighters for Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers-should make a difference...
...method of nonviolence [against Japan] could not only be effective but was the only course open to him. Said he: "We have no army, no military resources, no military skill, and nonviolence is the only thing we can rely on. Of course we can't prevent invasion: the Japs will land, but they will land on an inhospitable shore. We do not need to kill a single Jap; we simply give them no quarter. We may be unable to withstand their terror and may have to go through a course of subjection worse than the present state...
...basis for this thesis was laid when U.S. Army & Navy land-based planes flew out from Midway and Hawaii to take a terrible toll of Jap carriers (TIME, June 22). Most bombers deliberately ignored the accompanying Jap battleships, went directly for the vulnerable carriers. When the carriers were sunk, the whole huge task force had to turn tail. The thesis was strengthened last week when land-based U.S. Consolidated bombers from Northern Africa hammered the Italian Fleet (see p. 22). And the Army in Alaska is even using land-based torpedo planes to blast the Japs out of Attu...
...Rich in destroyers (171) when the Jap attacked, the Navy is now building more, of the Fletcher class. Their secret design is the answer to the Jap's 2,000-ton Kageros, and his secretly built "cruiser-destroyers...