Word: akyab
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Carlin crossed the Bay of Bengal alone, met Hanley in Akyab, Burma. Together, the new shipmates crossed Burma and headed toward Thailand. Neglected British military roads were so bad that Carlin says, "I wouldn't drive that way again for Gracie Kelly and ?1,000, with Rudolph the Rainier's job thrown...
...troops, many of whom had fought Japs at Myitkyina and Akyab, were taking on a new kind of enemy-organized brigands called dacoits who held Burma's hinterlands in a reign of terror. In a single recent month Burma has reported 1,350 dacoities.* Because frightened paddy field workers cowered in their homes and half Burma's fields lay fallow, Burmans went hungry and Indians and Chinese starved for lack of Burma's rice...
...Meiktila British and U.S. airmen quickly put the airfields to their own uses. Tanks ranged over good roads to prevent reinforcements coming up from Rangoon. At Akyab, ruined as a port when the Japs fled nine weeks ago, Allied ships were unloading...
...Japanese in northern and western Burma were in full retreat last week. Only at Akyab, principal port on the west coast, and around Wanting, on the old Burma Road, were Allied troops in close contact with the retiring foe. To the British, who had been driving on Akyab for two dreary years, the disease-ridden town at the mouth of the Arakan River seemed like something at the end of a rainbow. Now they were within sight of it, and in position to contain...
Other fingers of the Allied hand probed directly toward Mandalay. The British resumed their two-year-old drive on Akyab through Arakan, made faster progress. The stagnation in Burma was ended...