Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...based air forces, in their most destructive raid of the war, blasted Haiphong in Indo-China, destroying shipping and munition dumps. Chennault's tactics were brilliant. Lightning-like, he struck around the compass. R.A.F. and U.S. pilots from India attacked Jap airdromes in Thailand and Burma. And in Yunnan, China's southernmost province, the troops of General Chiang Kai-shek waited in the jungles...
...north. Reports came of new activity along the Siberian border. The Japs, they calculated, intended to turn their backs on China for a while to fight another war. The Chinese also looked to the south. The Japs, they calculated, intended to stab at China's soft underside through Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces...
...Today the Japanese bomber is the hunted, not the hunter." All that week there had been fresh signs that this was true. Winging over the lonely shores of the South China Sea, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong in Indo-China, the big invasion base where the Jap squatted, glaring at Yunnan Province and waiting for the end of the monsoons...
Everlasting and Permanent. The Black Death reached the U.S. in another great eruption (1892-1902). It began around the primary plague focus in China's Yunnan (Burma Road) Province, spread to India and seaports all over the globe. Some 12,000,000 people died in India alone. In 1900 it reached San Francisco, probably via ship-borne rats from Honolulu. Within the next two years some 113 persons (mostly Chinese) are known to have died in San Francisco of plague...
...front dashed Lung Yun (the Cloud Dragon), Governor of Yunnan Province. With the dead general at his feet, he called on the little soldiers for another last stand. The Jap would soon cross the Salween. His rolling stock was already massing on the bluff. He would have to be stopped. It would be hard. Every beaten soldier there knew that the Japs across the Salween were from the crack Red Dragon armored division...