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Y. Lee Yu speaking for General Tom Tumal director of the Chinese Air Forces in the United States. China's end 1937 I'll never forget it. We were in Hang Cha, reading the report as they came in over the helixai.

Hang high yesterday is now regarded as the first phase of a large-scale military The action aimed control of all this section of China. Japanese bombers is headed inland in the general direction of the shop.

Now fighting things will take off and fight them. Will they not? Yes, I think they will. Do you think our fighters can stop them to page? I didn't know how to answer the prospect of being bombed was terrifying.

No one knew much about it then. We were pretty sure that the Japanese would come in strength. And I knew there were few fighting planes in the Hangzhou area. What do you think, Mr. Page?

Well, it's hard to say, Wong. I remember that just four weeks before, as a result of the incident at the Marco Polo Bridge, General Yizhimochonka Shek had called his generals together to Ling. And it had been unofficially reported then that China had only about 200 warplanes.