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zenfarm
Posted 2/7/2025 12:57 (#11093325 - in reply to #11093163)
Subject: RE: efficiency/ old national geographic article


South central kansas
john s - 2/7/2025 11:11

I like to read old books, some of the old WW2 National Geographics are my favorite

In one of articles the Chinese where building an airstrip, by hand, thousands of them with shovels and rakes and wheelbarrows.
An American general asked the Chinese guy in charge "why don't I bring my engineers over with our bulldozers we could have this done in a couple days"
The chinese guy waved out over the workers and asked what will these people do for work then?

That story has always stuck with me

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Do you remember what the planes that we were going to use on the airstrip, were?. I have the Time-Life books on ww2, and I remember seeing a series of photos that Chinese workers were building an airstrip for B-29's, before the Americans had captured ( or at least hadn't finished the bomber bases on Tinian island).




Edited by zenfarm 2/7/2025 13:00
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