World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: A.V.G. to U.S.A.

The Chinese, who invented fireworks, will not shoot any off on July 4, 1942. That is to be the sad day, announced China's Central News Agency last week, when the rocket-swift, pinwheel-precise American Volunteer Group ceases to be a unit of the Chinese army and becomes a part of the U.S. Army Air Forces.

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