Rabu, 22 November 2017

What was the Navy Doing in China?

Spying, weather reporting, training Chinese fighters— and battling foes within. “What the hell is the navy doing here?” That’s how U.S. Navy radioman Richard Rutan was greeted when he stepped down from a C-47 plane in central China in June 1944. The question was somehow fitting for Rutan, a member of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, …

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