-- in china, it would be chiang kai-shek -- it would be prestigious for chiang kai-shek.that is why they come up with this scheme that becomes matterhorn. for that happens, the airplanes have to fly and have to get to the theater. arnold looks at the situation in decides we have to get the airplanes going. he sends boeing engineers to the facility producing b-29s in kansas and they fight a domestic battle called the battle of kansas. what they do is, when they roll the airplanes off the production line, they take them to the tarmac and make approximately 50 to 55 major changes to the airplane. this is in march, in kansas. his freezing. subfreezing temperatures, blizzards. men arese engineers, out there doing it to make this airplane fly. about everyect electrical circuit in the airplane to put a new engine in. an eye-chart so i will skip over it quickly. the 20th air force is going to controlled by arnold and the joint chiefs. want his prized b-29s to go to the navy or macarthur and kenny. he probably could have made contributions but arnold was determined that this would

and he wanted something that would help used chiang kai-shek's morale.he was feeling that we had let down the chinese over and over again. there was a concern that chang was getting frustrated with us. i think he felt, if the b-29 could fly from china, from an area that was safe in china, it would be prestigious for chiang kai-shek. that is why they come up with this scheme that becomes matterhorn. before that happens, the airplanes have to fly and have to get to the theater. arnold looks at the situation in the winter and decides we have to get the airplanes going. he sends boeing engineers to the facility producing b-29s in kansas and they fight a domestic battle called the battle of kansas. what they do is, when they roll the airplanes off the production line, they take them to the tarmac and make approximately 50 to 55 major changes to the airplane. this is in march, in kansas. it's freezing. subfreezing temperatures, blizzards. yet, these engineers, men are out there doing it to make this airplane fly. they disconnect about every electrical circuit

taipei a chinese flag flies over the building inside a portrait of taiwan's former president chiang kai shek hangs alongside current chinese president xi jinping china born mrs john is busy painting patriotic slogans this one reads for unification with china against taiwan's independence. that's a quote you home to as a chinese in taiwan who is sons and daughters of the chinese nation we're taking on the responsibility of pushing for the unification of a country that says it just sounds. then they plaster their campaign bus in slogans they want to give taiwan's liberal pro independence president a piece of their mind. taiwan's often have groups and media organizations often financed by wealthy businessmen and women are the most obvious means of chinese influence. but more subtle mischievous methods are employed using social media the politically independent taiwan fact check center in taipei has been monitoring the sharp increase in fake news. these include repeated claims often using manipulated content but taiwan has been behind the protests in hong kong. know but i'm sure it's a tie why s

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partly because they wanted to appease -- i don't know if appeases the right word, but support chiang kai-shek at a moment when chiang was complaining about not being supported and roosevelt was feeling guilty about not having done it. >> you are right. itchigo was the operation that actually took out most of those bases. the enemy does have a vote. >> next question to your right, with connie. >> real quick question. how did they finally solve the engine fire problems on the super fortress? >> they used a variety of expedients, crossover tubes, and other expedients that got more air flowing over the engines. i am not an engineer so i don't know the exact details but they kept working and working to cool them adequately with airflow. >> there were some tricks that pilots used as well. i talked with a veteran who went back and somebody had rebuilt an old b-29. they had set it up at an airbase in the far west somewhere. he walked in and a bunch of these rookies get ready to start it and he said, here are the things you need to do. they said, it is not in the manual. he said, ok. they took off and