Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fittingly enough, the strategy of unity was first proposed by the first victim of Axis aggression, China. In Chungking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week suggested the immediate formation of an Allied High Command. Britain responded by directing General Sir Archibald Wavell to further British cooperation with China. Anthony Eden flew to Moscow to find out exactly how far Russia would go in joint action. In London and Washington both military and civil authorities of all the Allied nations conferred. President Roosevelt said that plans for joint action were coming along very nicely...
Last year lean, hardbitten, taciturn Colonel Claire L. Chennault (U.S. Army, retired), adviser to Chiang Kai-shek's Air Force, left Chungking for the U.S. He rounded up U.S. volunteers to fly 100 new P-40s purchased from the U.S. If U.S. aid were to flow in over the Burma Road, U.S. flyers would have to protect it. All through the summer months Colonel Chennault whipped his volunteers (dubbed the "Flying Tigers") into shape. By the time he was ready to fight, he had an added incentive: the Japanese were now the enemies of his own country...
...British troops were slowly pressed by Japanese forces, CNAC established an emergency service from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in the lee of the Kowloon hills (see cut, p. 18), While bombs and artillery shells rained down on the field, U.S. and Chinese pilots loaded Daddy Kung, Madame Sun, Banker Chen and 272 other passengers into shuttling planes, crossed the Japanese lines, set them down safely 200 miles inland. By the time the airport became too hot, they had rescued the entire staff of the air company and were ready to carry on from new headquarters...
Chief hope of Hong Kong was the Chinese army. Early reports had stated that Chiang Kai-shek himself was leading crack troops to the relief of the encircled islanders. This was unlikely but Chungking announced later that one of China's toughest war heroes, General Tsai Ting-kai, who had slugged the Japanese to a standstill in the 1932 Shanghai war, was among the commanders of relieving forces. Chinese troops were already reported battling in the Japanese rear at Tamshui, 28 miles north of the colony's border. The Chinese Air Force was in action over Canton...
Because Chiang Kai-shek resisted, Japan again attacked Shanghai and entered it after eleven weeks' bloody fighting...