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Hengyang, Kweilin, Tushan, Liuchow-the names fall like a dirge on the South China wind. The time is 1944, and the stench of burning Chinese towns masks the peaceful summer scent of oranges, persimmons and rice fields. With the Japanese armies at their heels, U.S. demolition teams mine the strategic airstrips with 1,000-lb. bombs gouging the good earth as they retreat. The irony is that they outrun the enemy but are runners-up to history...
...destroyers were ordered to Tushan, where Gleason gaped at the assignment-warehouse after warehouse stacked ceiling high with tons and tons of small-arms ammunition bearing such brand names as Skoda, Krupp, Winchester. Other buildings were filled with mortar shells and dynamite...
...Tushan the Japanese Emperor's hungry Army had to turn around. In the end it had to pick its way laboriously back across the bitter, blackened land...
Before they stopped, China's woes had multiplied. The enemy had taken the base at Tushan, but before he did, more of China's precious supplies went up in smoke and flame. Ahead of the Jap spearhead, U.S. engineers set the torch to the base's munitions dumps. Thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition and fighting equipment of all kinds, stored up with infinite pain from the trickle of supply across the Hump from India, were blasted to destruction in a 48-hour holocaust...
...Japs plowed on, occupied an empty shell of a town beyond Tushan before they stopped. Then they began to back up, abandoned the scarred hulk of Tushan. Grim, cold, filthy Kweiyang, swarming with abjectly miserable refugees, was reprieved, and China with...
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