Word: kiangsi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinly extended Japs in the Solomons. MacArthur and his Australians were ready with enough troops to set back, perhaps defeat, the Japs in New Guinea. Even the Chinese, supported by a small U.S. air force, had concentrated enough power to take full advantage of Jap withdrawals in Chekiang and Kiangsi. Plainly the Japs were suffering more from their dispersals than the Allies suffered at the points of specific action last week...
...still held the vital coastline of southeast China, but in the interior the offensive was falling from his hands. Tokyo had its explanation. It was that troops were being withdrawn from Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces "to secure a . . . position for future action...
...Chinese Army on the ground was galvanized too. In the complicated mazes of China's fluid tactical plan it had never stopped fighting, but now it fought with new heart. It slashed into the Jap in the north (see p. 21) and in the east, particularly in Kiangsi Province, where by a series of explosive sallies it made the Jap's life miserable. It shook his hold from the eastern railroad net, sliced a big piece out of the vital Chekiang-Kiangsi railway he had spent so much blood to win. From Shensi Province in the inland north...
...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...
...explanation came out of Chungking. The "air units" were merely ground crews, technicians, front men. They were a token of planes to come, but on the Chekiang-Kiangsi front, where the situation was desperate, the time for planes...