Okinawa: This is the Future of War

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“I heard you took up one of my shiny new airplanes yesterday,” Major ‘Buffalo’ Ling-Sui, commander of the Chinese Air Force 5th Pursuit Group, grunted as he dropped his flight jacket beside him and sat down to his rice porridge in a half-deserted mess. It was dawn and most of the other pilots of the Chengdu airbase were still asleep, exhausted from unrelenting combat against the Japanese air force and some much-needed celebrations the night before. “And you broke it.”

His opposite number, Major Wong ‘John’ Cheng, commander of the 3rd Pursuit Group, looked up from his own breakfast and watched the short, stocky Californian ease onto the bench across from him. The two had served together from the early days; Guangdong Air Force Academy, 1938, John always a promotion ahead of his hot-headed fellow American until attrition had finally allowed Buffalo to catch up with him and win command of his own fighter Group.

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