Word: tanchuk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese troops followed up their capture of the Fourteenth Air Force base city of Liuchow (TIME, July 9) by closing in on four other onetime U.S. air bases-Paoking, Tanchuk, Kanhsien and "Kweilin. On the Indo-Chinese frontier, mountain troops extended their front to 160 miles. But at week's end Chungking reported one setback: Japanese marines had landed on the Chinese-held southeast coast, presumably to reinforce Amoy's depleted garrison...
...freshly landed reinforcements, the Japs made good time, taking Wuchow and pressing on to Tan-chuk, most important of the Fourteenth Air Force bases southeast of the Heng-yang-Nanning line. Like the great U.S. base at Kweilin, built by the hand labor of thousands of Chinese, Tanchuk was scorched by Chennault's airmen before they left...
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