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The A.A.F. had already lifted China's Sixth Army twice, with its 25,000 men, 2,178 horses and mules, more than 1,500 tons of gear. Now it was time again to pick up the Sixth, which claims to be "the most airborne army in the world." It...
Japanese troops, having played out their last forlorn role, were about to retire to concentration camps. Their commander, General Yasuji Okamura, for many years overlord of all North China, brooded in the gloomy rooms of the Foreign Office in Nanking; his last function is that of "chief liaison officer" between...
The Catch. War criminals were slowly being rounded up and divided into three categories: those who had plotted and perpetrated the war, such as Hideki Tojo and his Cabinet; military leaders responsible for military outrages such as the rape of Nanking and the death march on Bataan; Japanese soldiers and...
The laughter of yeh chi ("wild chickens") rang through every thick-carpeted hotel corridor. The steaks were thick and plentiful. Real Scotch (not Australian) whiskey flowed. Hotel beds had spring mattresses and clean white sheets. By changing U.S. dollars to Chungking dollars to Nanking dollars to Japanese yen, the fabulously...
On the eve of China's greatest triumph -the formal surrender of the Japanese at Nanking (see INTERNATIONAL)-indefatigable Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek looked ahead. To his nation of 450,000,000 he proclaimed: