Word: kaifeng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, more than 100 B-29 Superfortresses roared out to attack Anshan, with smaller diversionary blows at Dairen, on the Kwantung Peninsula, and at Loyang and Kaifeng, in occupied China. Every plane that left the ground returned safely-adding to the evidence that the last bugs are being driven out of the giant bombers. Radioed happy General ("Hap") Arnold to the 20th Bombardment Group: "I reserve a special pat on the back for your ground crews and all maintenance and supply crews...
Bursting with pride in Chinese prowess, the press office of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced last week that 97 Japanese officers and 1,800 troops were slain in a stiff engagement in the province of Honan when Chinese forces stormed "Kaifeng, the first provincial capital recaptured since Japan began the war on July...
...hours later Japanese Army communiques said that Chinese troops had forced their way into part of Kaifeng at 5 a.m. but were driven out at 2 p.m. The Japanese count: 150 Chinese dead, five Japanese, including one Japanese major. Sadly next day Chiang Kai-shek's spokesman admitted that "the first provincial capital recaptured" was being evacuated by the Chinese...