Word: suchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combat troops), commanded by Generals Li Mi, Chiu Ching-chuan and Sun Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps and supply depots, 8,000-foot pillars of black smoke drifted in the still, frosty air. For once, the Reds were not going to capture Nationalist supplies...
Ropes for Passengers. If the Suchow forces were able to link up with the encircled Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 50 miles to the south, they would be a serious threat to the rear of Communist General Chen Yi, commanding the Huai River attack. Chen Yi made a quick about-face. Leaving a small holding force behind on the Huai, he sent six columns (some 125,000 men) to cope with the threat from the north...
...almost 20 years of war and revolution the pilots of the China National Aviation Corp. have flown some of the most hazardous commercial schedules in the world. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle accompanied C.N.A.C. Captain Herbert MacWilliams (TIME, Nov. 25) on his last two flights into embattled Suchow. Doyle's report...
...Captain MacWilliams banged into the C.N.A.C. ready room at Shanghai's Lunghua airport. He went up to a blue-suited Chinese at a long counter marked "Briefing." "You going to Suchow, eh?" said the Chinese. Then, in a positive tone, he added: "Suchow will fall in the near future...
MacWilliams checked the weather and the military situation. A chalked caution on the briefing board read: "Suchow general situation calm. Fighting going on southeast ten kilometers away. Never circle over or come down to look at fighting area." MacWilliams stopped to talk with other pilots warming their hands over a coal stove. Like MacWilliams, a former U.S. Navy search pilot, they had come to China after the war because they liked flying and could make good money. In a busy month they could net as much as the equivalent...