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CHINESE FROM NORTH CHUNGKING, Jan. 21. Lieut.-General Wedemeyer’s headquarters disclosed that thousands of Chinese troops were carried from the north by American pilots in the greatest mass aerial movement ever made in China when the Japanese drive began to threaten Chungking several weeks ago. The transfer would have taken several weeks by ground even if trucks had been available, for it is a tortuous trip through the mountains. The planes carried more than 1000 troops a day. The pilots said the terrain was as rugged as any in the .world. The job was tougher than flying over the Hump from India.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21619, 23 January 1945, Page 3
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