Word: akyab
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...Ledo Road. Purpose of Uncle Joe Stilwell's latest drive-460 miles northeast of Mountbatten's southward push toward Akyab-is to march across northern Burma over some of the world's cruelest, most miasmic terrain, clearing Japs from the path of the new Ledo Road which hopefully will connect with the old Burma Road. Thus eventually a route to China may be opened to supplement supply by airplanes flying the "hump...
...year ago the British failed to take the strategic Akyab port and air base because they had not mastered Jap jungle tactics and turned them against the enemy. The 1944 campaign also seemed destined to be a bust unless Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten can draw to a full house before the monsoons begin...
...main British objective was to retake Akyab, the small seaport on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. It failed for several reasons...
...occupation of Akyab depended on speedy movement and sea landings. Neither was forthcoming...
...history of the second Burma campaign the British never had made their purposes clear. A major accomplishment would have been the seizure of the Jap base at Rangoon on the Bay of Bengal. In the end the British would have settled for the little harbor and air base of Akyab, about 325 miles north of Rangoon. But even Akyab now was beyond reach - at least until the end of the monsoon, some time in October...