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Thomas Dudley Harmon was about to score again. The Army Air Forces pilot and peacetime All-American halfback, shot down by a Japanese Zero near Kiu-kiang, was safely on his way, escorted by Chinese guerrillas, to the advanced Lightning Fighter Base somewhere in China. Waiting for him there were his first lieutenant's bars...
Reported Missing in Action. Army Air Forces Lieut. Thomas Dudley ("Tom") Harmon, 24, Michigan's onetime All-America halfback; since Oct. 30; over China. His promotion to first lieutenant came one day after he failed to return from an attack on the Yangtse River port of Kiu-kiang. Last April he bailed out of his Army bomber "Old 98" over the jungles of French Guiana (he was the plane's only survivor), last August brought down a Jap Zero over Hong Kong...
...China flyers ranged farther. On another raid they swept down river to Kiu-kiang (see p. 25), broke up a Jap concentration. They punched at Nanchang and, it was reported, at Hong Kong. Greatest wonder of all: they ranged southeast all the way to Canton, caught the Jap's planes on the ground, blasted 50 to 60 of them to bits. This week, over Szechwan, they broke up a 50-plane Jap bombing party headed for Chungking...
...Kiu-kiang, about 400 miles southeast of Shanghai on the Yangtsze-kiang River in the inland Province of Kiangsi, and about 130 miles southwest of Hankow. The British and Japanese Consulates were wrecked, and the Japanese Consulate and other Japanese buildings were burned by infuriated mobs. No casualties were reported...
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