Word: yochow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in the main corridor, from Yochow and Hankow, through Changsha and Hengyang, down which the enemy was funneling his attack groups and supplies, he was subject to harassment by Chinese guerrilla bands. But these attacks were pinpricks against the flank of an armored monster...
Seeds and Dikes. The most important battles of the last month have been in the lake country of central China (see map inset). Along the meandering Yangtze, in the flatlands between Shasi and Yochow, the Japanese threw an eight-pronged drive southward toward huge, dike-bound Tungting Lake. Using perhaps 40,000 troops and plenty of aircraft, the Japanese quickly overran the area between river and lake...
That was not all. Never resting, within one short day Chennault's men flew to the port of Canton (see col. 1), where the Jap had entrenched himself along the Pearl River; attacked the Japanese base at Hankow; pounded Jap-held points at Nanchang, Sienning and Yochow on the Canton-Hankow railway...
...fortnight they had been pushing southward into Chinese defense positions below the strategic rail town of Yochow. Last week they sent a large flanking force down Tungting Lake. Under air and gunboat protection they landed in the Chinese rear, advanced to within 50 miles of Changsha. The Japanese said 20,000 Chinese troops were encircled...
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