Craig Watson
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4,699 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Craig Watson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The river once again became, in military senses, almost a fixed frontier.
As gunfire subsided in Xiangbei, all attention turned back to Yitang.
The encirclement of the city was completed at noon on October 4th.
Zhan Chong ordered a general offensive to begin at four in the morning on the 6th.
Outside of the city, Li Yanyan's 2nd Army held fast against the Japanese 39th Division, which was trying to come in from Jingmen.
Altogether, the 6th War Zone had committed 14 divisions, more than 100,000 men to the operation.
What followed was the familiar but always arresting spectacle of a great battle gathering itself.
Small detachments moved forward to cut wire and destroy fortifications outside of the city.
Artillery officers adjusted their fire with care.
Ammunition boxes changed hands continuously.
Telephone operators hurried back and forth laying lines.
Engineers worked with picks and shovels.
Trucks forced their way down crowded roads with horns blaring.
Boats were requisitioned along the riverbanks, and dark-skinned boatmen, weathered by the Aung Tzu wind, moved amongst the soldiers and officers.
Behind the assault units stood medical stations under the Red Cross flags, waiting for the wounded they knew were coming.
All the machinery of the battle was in motion.
Inside Yichang, meanwhile, another scene unfolded that could only exist in wartime Japan's peculiar mixture of militarism and performance.
At the field hospital of the Japanese 13th Division on the campus of Mingde Middle School, wounded soldiers wrapped in white bandages stood, sat, lay on stretchers, or leaned on medical orderlies in the yard watching entertainers from their homeland perform with the dull rhythms of artillery sounding off in the distance.
The Asakusa Art Troupe had been founded in the mid-1920s and had made its name by combining modern, popular elements with traditional stage culture.
It first won over ordinary audiences and then, as their reputation rose, gained acceptance amongst the official and elite circles as well.
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