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Chinese troops followed up their capture of the Fourteenth Air Force base city of Liuchow (TIME, July 9) by closing in on four other onetime U.S. air bases-Paoking, Tanchuk, Kanhsien and "Kweilin. On the Indo-Chinese frontier, mountain troops extended their front to 160 miles. But at week's end Chungking reported one setback: Japanese marines had landed on the Chinese-held southeast coast, presumably to reinforce Amoy's depleted garrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Ninth Year | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...battlefields northeast of Canton, darkness persisted. The Japanese who had overrun the American air bases at Suichwan and Kanhsien pressed on to Namyung, source of steel-hardening wolfram. The great airfield at Sincheng, big enough for B-29s, was lost just nine days after an army of coolies had completed the heartbreaking task of pounding the runways smooth and straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: The Dawn in China | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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