Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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India. Mountbatten unified his air forces. Asia waited...
...Cairo conference is interpreted in the Southeast Asia headquarters as a definite turning point; the war against Japan will shift from a limited holding offensive to an Allied drive for victory. Grand-scale action will not follow immediately, but from here on the war against Japan has a good chance of being a coordinated, well-timed effort reaching the scale of a first-class offensive some time...
...China for battle training, often initiate minor battles to get this training. But in general the debilitating psychological effect of the stalemate is as bad for the Japs as it is for the Chinese. The apathy and slow disintegration in China bear on the Allies' great gamble in Asia: that, when taps are blown in Europe and the South Pacific, Lao Ping will somehow be ready to greet G.I. Joe with cheers and a ready trigger finger...
...moment, at least, the Pacific Big Three are only secondarily interested, if at all, in propaganda warfare: i.e., appeals to the Japanese against their Emperor and government or to the conquered people of greater Asia (always excepting the Chinese, whose ruler had joined in the common declaration...
...proved his theories, and the Pacific war brought the first sweet taste of public recognition. During the Burma campaign and after he withdrew to China and the long blockade, his pilots and his tactics wrote a never-to-be-forgotten record across the skies of Asia. Every agency of the U.S. Government had fought his efforts to organize the American Volunteer Group; its achievements - and his - are now a part of American glory...