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...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...
...quivered with the Jap threat to its sinewless, amorphous soul, calm words came from China's headquarters. Reverses there were nothing new, and wherever Chinese and Japanese had met, the Chinese had given good account of themselves. They had even forced the Jap back in some spots in Yunnan Province. But China's undaunted face masked a foreboding soul...
...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...
...Joseph Stilwell; in their confidence they hurried into Yünnan only 5,000 strong. At week's end "Uncle Joe's" men came to life and, with a fury that harked back to the Chinese furies at Changsha and Taierchwang, rolled up the Japanese rear. In Yunnan a trap snapped on the Japanese...
Strong Japanese motorized columns today appeared to be driving towards Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province and key to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's vital southwest defense zone...