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To: TobagoJack who wrote (17045)	4/13/2007 11:04:07 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217949

TJ, "not even true as an exaggeration". You are on pretty shaky ground there, fact wise. Now it could be that Chiang might have come to some sort of accommodation with the Japanese, but it is unlikely that the Japanese would have given up coastal China and Chiang surely didn't have the ability to remove them. And the Reds didn't have the resources to confront the Japanese in any substantial way, especially with Chiang at their throat. Without Chennault Chunking would have fallen or been bombed into oblivion. Without the US Navy the world's second most powerful navy (Japan was truly #2 after the US and much more potent than the Royal Navy) would have been in complete control of Asian waters. Remember what happened to HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse? Without American B-17's and B-24's flying supplies "over the hump" China would have been completely isolated and would have lacked even rifle ammunition with which to resist the Japs. I suppose you have some idea how difficult this was in those days, and how very few airplanes in the world were capable of such a feat, practically all of them American. Stillwell built the Burma Road. I could go on and on. Disclosure: A cousin was with Chennault and I have heard China stories all my life. Slagle