Word: linchwan
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Chinese had wrested back 135 miles of the Hangchow-Nanchang Railway, after a two weeks' siege occupied Linchwan. The Japanese burned and destroyed as they slowly retreated, as though they never expected to be back in that country...
Fortnight ago, for the first time in China's five-year-old war, the Chinese Army made an attack with air support. Fighter planes of General Chennault's 23rd Pursuit Group, carrying medium bombs strapped to their wings, flew over Linchwan, smashed the Jap headquarters, barracks and supply depots as Chinese on the ground launched their attack. Chinese troops cleared out the nearby town of Huwan, fought their way into Linchwan's suburbs. Last week the fight was still going on, while the Sky Dragons harried Jap supply lines and reinforcements...
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