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The Long March C
The Pacific Story · October 22, 1944 · 30 min · 3,896 words
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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In the mounting jury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest scene.
The drama of the people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here is another public service, is the tale of the war in the Pacific, and its meaning to us and to the generations to come.
The long march. Into the car here. We'll find a place for this machine gun.
Yeah, right over here. Take only the things we must have. Are all the horses and mules packed? Yes, Captain Wang. They are packed with more than they can carry. So it will be with all of us.
Get those machine parts and that ammunition packed down those animals. With me and with me and with you supplies over here. The packing went on through the day into the blackness of the night. All of us knew what lay ahead of us.
Ahead, lay a 6,000 mile march. Many of us would never reach the North West at all. But there was no staying here. We are hemmed in. This was Pang Taehui, Deputy Commander of General Chutech.
Look at this map. Pang spread a map before General Chutech and Maltzi Dung and Lim. I stood by as a member of the staff. Here, you see, General Q. The nationalists are closing in around the Red District from every side.
Yes, they will close this vice about us whenever the time is right for them. They have tried to crush us four times with extermination campaigns, and we have defeated them every time. The situation is graver now, Lin.
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