BATTLE OF ASIA: Chennault on the Japs

At a mud-walled headquarters on the South China front, Major General Claire Lee Chennault last week gave a succinct review of Japanese air power:

>The Japs use a vast aerial stagger system to guard their empire and train air crews for combat. Freshman flyers go to central China to bomb relatively undefended towns. Then they move by easy stages to Formosa for additional training. In the Canton-Hong Kong area, they next bomb southern China and come up against Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. The survivors proceed to Thailand and Burma, where they still tangle...

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