Word: liuchow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hengyang, Kweilin, Tushan, Liuchow-the names fall like a dirge on the South China wind. The time is 1944, and the stench of burning Chinese towns masks the peaceful summer scent of oranges, persimmons and rice fields. With the Japanese armies at their heels, U.S. demolition teams mine the strategic airstrips with 1,000-lb. bombs gouging the good earth as they retreat. The irony is that they outrun the enemy but are runners-up to history...
...major lives by his creed. When a synchronous detonation of the Liuchow runway is foiled, Major Baldwin goads his bone-weary men through an unending night as they blow each bomb separately. When the men stand about in listless show-me skepticism, it is the major who mans the heavy air hammer to prepare a roadbed rock slide...