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Going Home. The U.S. flyers broke all records for such operations. The bright autumn sky over ancient Peiping drummed with the 20th-Century roar of twin-engined aircraft as the planes swept down on the airfield, hour after hour. They disgorged their human cargo, taxied to gas pumps manned by...
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...
One C-54 with 80 Chinese passengers and a crew of four Americans crashed near Hangchow, killing all the occupants - the greatest loss of life in any U.S. plane any where. A C46 struck a radio tower at Peiping and crashed. There were other casualties when superstitious Chinese walked across...
Up from Peiping flew a bevy of crack Central Government troubleshooters. One of them was affable General Tu Liming, Chungking's military commander for the Northeast. Another was Russian-speaking Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's elder son, who has a Russian wife and used to be...
Below the Great Wall. South of the Great Wall, the great old cities of commerce and culture, which mean so much to all Chinese, were solidly in Central Government hands. U.S. air forces had just finished transporting Chungking's Ninety-Fourth Army from Shanghai (see ARMY & NAVY) to Peiping...