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Other schools were then started to train flight sergeants, and qualified mechanics. Chinese airmen began to pour out of these schools at a rate far higher than planes were pouring in for them to fly. [[strikethrough]] For the more [[/strikethrough]] By the way one of the biggest training schools for Chinese flyers is right here in The United States.

MISS HALL:  [[strikethrough]] Why! [[/strikethrough]] That is news to me, [[strikethrough]] Miss Lee! [[/strikethrough]] Do you mean to say that Chinese pilots come all the way from China to be trained by Uncle Sam?

MISS LEE: Yes, I certainly do, [[strikethrough]] Miss Hall. [[/strikethrough]] Each month hundreds of young Chinese [[strikethrough]] men [[/strikethrough]] pilots are arriving in this country to be trained. Just last week the first group graduated and are now on their way to take the air against the Japanese.

MISS HALL: That's wonderful news, [[strikethrough]] Miss Lee [[/strikethrough]] -- Tell me in your opinion what is needed more than anything else in China as far as military supplies are concerned?

MISS LEE: I think that the Chinese soldier over a period of almost five years has proven his worth as a fighting man and I think that everyone, including the Japanese, recognize Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's brilliant leadership but I also believe that the whole world realizes by now that no matter how fine an army may be, [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] and no matter how brilliant the leadership without superiority in the air it is liable to be a one-sided battle. Therefore I should say that China's