Word: lishui
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...story were true, his actions in southeast China had all the earmarks of a desperate gamble: that the United Nations would stick to their decision to concentrate their all on Germany, divert little strength to the China battlefield. For the Jap had given up (at Chuhsien and Lishui) airdromes from which airpower could strike at his industries and military establishments at home and on Formosa. He was about to lose another bombing base at Kinhwa. Whatever he was preparing for next, he knew that these bases were pistols pointed at the heart of his national life. All that was needed...
Last week, while the token U.S. Air Force in China blasted at Japanese-held objectives, ground forces of the Chinese took two pearls of potentially great price. They pushed the enemy back through Chekiang Province and retook two of the finest military airdromes in China; one at Lishui, only 700 miles from the great naval base at Nagasaki; another at Chuhsien, only a few bomber steps farther. China knew what could be done to Japan from there...
Tokyo fears, and Chungking hopes, that long-range U.S. bombers may soon attack Japan from South China. Flying Fortresses, such as those evacuated from Java to Australia, could easily bomb the great Jap base on Formosa, 300 miles southeast of the Chinese airdrome at Lishui. With flights no longer than Fortresses have made in other battle areas, bombers from Lishui and Chuhsien could reach Kobe or Kyoto in Japan itself...
Last week bombers from Jap bases in China raided the airdromes at Lishui and Chuhsien. Afterward the Japanese said" that U.S. technicians had lengthened the runways, otherwise improved Lishui and Chuhsien in preparation for the arrival of U.S. bombers...
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