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...West River. With their garrison divisions leavened by 20,000 freshly landed reinforcements, the Japs made good time, taking Wuchow and pressing on to Tan-chuk, most important of the Fourteenth Air Force bases southeast of the Heng-yang-Nanning line. Like the great U.S. base at Kweilin, built by the hand labor of thousands of Chinese, Tanchuk was scorched by Chennault's airmen before they left...
Meanwhile, the northern arm of the pincers thrust out three fingers to grasp Kweilin itself. To the Chinese its loss seemed inevitable. Far more disturbing now was a new threat to another of the Fourteenth's bases; the Japs seemed headed for Liuchow, 100 miles southwest of Kweilin...
Last week the Japanese did not drive directly into Kweilin; they circled it to the south. But this made little difference; they were already in sight of their objective: driving the Fourteenth U.S. Air Force out of southeast China.* The Fourteenth still had four strips, now all doomed, east of the Hankow-Canton railway. Soon only the biggest of Chennault's planes will be able to reach the South China Sea, where in the first 19 days of September his B-24s alone had sunk 74,600 tons of Jap shipping. The hope of using Chennault...
Chinese v. Chinese. While the situation in the field has worsened, so has the morale of China's Army. This year's Japanese campaigns, first in the Yellow River valley and then southward from Changsha to Kweilin, have been a series of defeats for the Chinese because...
...going to let them hold Kweilin, even if they take it. But now in this place and hour of defeat we know that this campaign has tacked six months on to the U.S. war against Japan. They raided us at this base last night and we dozed in slit trenches. Somebody mentioned the fact that today the Navy landed in Palau. A captain stopped to chat with me this morning. I asked him whether he'd heard the news about Palau. "Palau is swell." he said, "But, God, they've got to hurry - they...