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...Lawson can only call it "the incomprehensible machinery of Chinese aid." But it was not machinery. A chain of human beings, protective, silent, efficient, carried them from one hiding place to an other. For almost two months, Lawson and his crew were handed across a vast stretch of China by litter, flatboat, junk, stretcher, sedan chair, charcoal-burning truck, bus, station wagon, train, plane. Most of the time, young Dr. C., indefatigable, kind, intelligent, was at their side. Several days after the raid he had walked all night, 26 miles, and all day, 26 miles back, to bring the American...
...gave them a temporary haven. A swelling on Lawson's ankle had gone up to the knee. Three days later, the crew of another B-25 straggled in, and with them Flight Surgeon Doc White, who went to work on Lawson with blood transfusions. Dr. C. was forever poking a needle into Lawson's arm until his veins cowered. And then one day Lawson could no longer stand the scissoring away of the dead flesh...
...Lawson told Doc White, "For Christ's sake, take...
...given a spinal shot. He saw the doctor's arm moving, his own leg lifted, the blood vessels tied off. Four times Lawson looked at the silver saw in White's hand. He could hear the teeth cutting through thicker and thinner parts...
...month after the raid when the Japanese got too close and the flyers had to move out of Dr. C.'s hospital. Somehow the Chinese always came up with a vehicle, hurried them on their way. At Choo Chow Lishui (where Lawson had planned to land after bombing Tokyo) the airport was blown up. At Nanching the field was destroyed. They pulled into Hengyang, pushed on to Kweilin. The Flying Tigers had already moved...