Word: liuchow
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...very welcome letters from our men and women in the forces - and often our correspondents at the battlefronts send word of our military absentees. For example, one of Annalee Jacoby's first cables from Chungking started off with a size-up of the situation at Liuchow ("Eight of our air bases are missing") by Captain Gerald McAllister of the Fourteenth Air Force - once an office boy in our Washington Bureau...
...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...
...China. It was bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
...they had branched out across country, and were taking over Hochih, 40 miles inside Kwangsi. Behind the advancing Chinese troops, conscript and contract laborers already worked to restore recaptured airstrips for emergency use by Major General Chennault's fighters. But the nearest major air base, at Liuchow, was 95 miles beyond Hochih...