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...they roared overhead. Aiming for military targets, factories and power stations, Doolittle's planes dropped bombs on the Japanese capital and made symbolic strikes on five other cities. Lacking fuel to return to the Hornet or to reach any safe haven, the American pilots had to head for Nationalist-held areas of China, bail out and hope for the best. Most of them made it, but three were killed in crashes and eight captured...
...seven columns soon isolated the Nationalists in their cities and drew them out for costly battles that chewed up whole divisions without gaining ground for either side. Bled and battered, the Nationalist-held cities began to fall: by October 1948, Lin's forces held Mukden, Changchun and the Liaotung Peninsula, and had killed or captured 400,000 of Chiang's troops (including 36 generals replete with their arsenals). Then, advancing an average of six miles a day, Lin struck out for Peking, which fell 1"5 weeks later...
...Greece. Smith and Williams died in the airlift that foiled the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. Harding and Goodwin were the first Americans killed in Korea after North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel in 1950. Medendorp and Lynn died in 1954 when Red China loosed a thunderous artillery barrage against Nationalist-held Quemoy island. Anderson's U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. Davis died when his truck hit a mine 18 miles from Saigon and Viet Cong guerrillas waiting in ambush shot him as he tried to escape...
...grasses and trees are all soldiers" is an old Chinese proverb denoting a state of extreme nervousness and a feeling that one is surrounded by enemies. Last week Red China was using this hemmed-in feeling to justify its troop buildup in Fukien province across from the Nationalist-held offshore islands of Matsu and Quemoy. The Reds have had heavy troop concentrations along the Formosa Strait for years, but by last week they had added an estimated 100,000 men, raising the total to about 450,000. Belligerently, Red China claimed that Chiang Kai-shek was "preparing for an invasion...
...anniversary of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, will be a Tribute-to-Sweden Ball at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza-a smorgasbord benefit to raise funds for a new youth cultural center in Jerusalem. On his 74th birthday Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek chose to underscore one of the hottest issues in the U.S. election by journeying to the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy within easy range of the Red Chinese coast artillery. Bedded in Baltimore in a cast, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, 61, president of Johns Hopkins University, got word from doctors that his slipped disc will keep...