Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, Oct 24 – 30, 1940

Oct 24, 1940: US decides to boost fighter force in the Philippines

Oct 25, 1940: Japanese aircraft drop bombs close to US embassy in China’s wartime capital of Chongqing, triggering American protests

Oct 26, 1940: Horinouchi Kensuke, outgoing Japanese ambassador to Washington, predicts Franklin D. Roosevelt will be reelected in upcoming election, expects US-Japanese relations to not worsen further in his next term.

Oct 27, 1940: Japan believed to develop south China’s Guangxi province into base of advance into Yunnan province near Burma

Oct 28, 1940: Fierce fighting between Chinese and Japanese troops over the provincial capital of Nanning in southern China

Oct 29, 1940: T.V. Soong, politically connected Chinese businessman, in the United States in bid to forge common front against Axis powers

Oct 30, 1940: American pilot W. C. Kent dies as Japanese aircraft strafe civilian plane owned by China National Aviation Corp. on airfield in southwest China

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