Word: liuchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to all sources here, the Japs used the route for local traffic only. Occasionally troops moved to Liuchow 100 miles north, or Indo-China 100 miles south. But the Fourteenth Air Force kept the roads useless. Frequently the Japs were forced to rely upon files of impressed Chinese coolies, hauling sacks of bullets to the Indo-China garrisons...
...Japanese withdrew from their hard-won corridor through South China, the Chinese Army, cleaning up scattered resistance, cautiously advanced in their wake. Along a 180-mile front in Kwangsi Province, eager Chinese drew near to prizes they had lost a year ago-the air-base cities of Liuchow and Kweilin. This week TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White, first newsman to enter the recaptured corridor and "visit Nanning, radioed this report...
...southeast, Chennault had dispersed his planes widely after the loss of Kweilin and Liuchow. Now, from secret bases, they went on attacking Hong Kong. The Japs retaliated by bombing two Allied airfields deep in Kiangsi Province...
Virgil and the Colonels. Kweilin, with nearby Liuchow, forms the hub of southeast China's highways and railroads. Refugees were rushing in like animals before a forest fire. The 16 Americans among the thousands of fleeing Chinese went methodically to work mining road junctions, digging cavities under bridges, under abutments in the sides of denies...
...Furies. The Jap tide still rolled on. It rolled up to the great air force base at Liuchow. Gleason and his men did their ruinous best there. They wanted to fire the city too, but wretched Chinese householders, waving guns, refused to let them...