Word: liuchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese woman was blown 20 yards straight through his open window). This week, when he landed with our first airborne troops on the sacred soil of Dai Nippon, he must have been comparing the rubble of Tokyo with the ruins he had seen so often in Chungking and Liuchow and Nanning...
Chinese troops followed up their capture of the Fourteenth Air Force base city of Liuchow (TIME, July 9) by closing in on four other onetime U.S. air bases-Paoking, Tanchuk, Kanhsien and "Kweilin. On the Indo-Chinese frontier, mountain troops extended their front to 160 miles. But at week's end Chungking reported one setback: Japanese marines had landed on the Chinese-held southeast coast, presumably to reinforce Amoy's depleted garrison...
...sudden spurt of activity, Chinese troops last week captured Weichow Island, off the South China coast, pierced French Indo-China on a 100-mile front and pushed to within 150 miles of Shanghai. But their biggest success was the recapture of the key city of Liuchow, onetime Fourteenth Air Force base. From that war front, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White radioed...
...return there to defend it. Last week the withdrawing movement gave the Chinese the big prize of Wenchow, ancient treaty port on the east coast. Its occupation increased the Chinese-held coastline to 280 unbroken miles. Another and bigger prize, due to fall momentarily, would be Liuchow, onetime U.S. air base...
Chinese troops entered Nanning at noon the next day, encountered no serious opposition and rapidly moved forces both north and south until they held about 100 miles of the corridor. At present they stand about 20 miles from Liuchow, which will probably fall when the Jap timetable reaches the proper...