Word: tushan
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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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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