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...Nationalist officials made an eleventh-hour getaway from Kiangwan airfield. One of them was Mayor Chen Liang, who had just announced the beginning of "Health Week" in Shanghai. Quipped the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury the next day, before the Communists took it over: "The mayor certainly was sincere about it. He found out what seemed best for his health and promptly did it." By dusk, the western and southern outskirts of the city were bare of troops...
...first full-scale raid ever made against the city, more than 200 Okinawa-based Liberators, Mitchells and Thunderbolts strafed and bombed Shanghai's harbor and airfields. No. 1 target, hit with 300 tons of explosives, was Kiangwan airdrome, containing 15 major hangars, four concrete bomber runways, and the biggest concentration of Jap planes in China. Next day the planes went back again. On neither trip were the Americans challenged by fighter opposition...
When Editor Powell's finger infected, a Jap doctor sheared the whole skin away without anesthetic. When his feet swelled painfully, the Jap doctor laughed and a Jap nurse futilely painted them with iodine. Removed to Kiangwan prison, he was put in solitary confinement in a 5-by-10-ft. cell. His weight had dropped from 160 to 80 Ib. When he could no longer walk on his twice-swollen feet, he was sent to Shanghai General Hospital under military guard, there had his toes amputated...
General Uyeda at 7:30 a. m. launched his military attack, striking straight for the race course, and expecting to occupy Kiangwan (just beyond) within two hours. Advancing in skirmish formation, the Japanese soldiers prudently took cover behind each tree or hummock before advancing to the next, and ahead of them a Japanese barrage of overwhelming power advanced, blowing the Chinese out of their trenches. Thus there was very little bayonet work...
Japanese troops, again advancing (for the fourth time) upon Kiangwan, were held at bay by concealed nests of Chinese machine gunners. Like a lead pipe whanged against something harder, the Japanese line bent partly around Kiangwan...