Word: akyab
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...week's end the British stiffened up. British naval units in the Bay of Bengal helped by shelling the Japs along the seacoast. Allied planes bombed the Jap port of Akyab and pounded communications. But the Jap hold on Burma was unshaken...
...limited nature of General Wavell's attack in Burma was now clear. He wanted Akyab. He wanted it as an air base for attacks on Rangoon and Mandalay, and so that the Japs could not have it for attacks on Chittagong and Calcutta. His advance last week crept forward without major Japanese opposition but in the face of a bitterly resisting terrain to within 25 miles of the objective. To support him Allied flyers pasted Japanese bases at Heho and Shwebo, near Mandalay. They attacked Magwe, 128 miles east of Akyab, three times in two days. And they attacked...
...British had pushed some 40 miles down the Bay of Bengal coast toward Akyab along one of three main invasion routes open to the United Nations. (The others: southwest from China down the Burma Road, east from Assam into northern Burma...
...asserted was to be his last long flight, the great Australian aviator and Co-Pilot Pethybridge had left London on Wednesday for a "leisurely" trip home. When the single-motored monoplane reached Allahabad on Thursday, the flyers were scarcely three hours behind the record. Eagerly they headed on, past Akyab, out over the Bay of Bengal. . . . When, as the hours ticked by, there came no sign of the plane, no message from its radio, the Royal Air Force started one of the greatest searches in aviation history. Up from Penang roared 37 planes to scour Sir Charles's route...
...Major A. Stuart MacLaren and two other British soldiers who left Calshot, England, March 25, in one plane, put a new machine into service at Akyab, India, and wrecked the latter by hitting a heavy sea when trying to avoid a small island in alighting near Nikolski Bay off Kamtchatka...