Japan is curled like a cobra at the back door of China. Last week Japan was cobra-quiet, but China and her allies were alert. U.S. and R.A.F. planes harassed the enemy from the air. Brigadier General Claire Chennault's China-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.
Theirs was the...
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