Word: assam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Chennault gave Scott a P-40-"the single fighter plane that was to work out of Assam." Scott had its nose painted with the shark's head emblem: "I don't know how long I walked around the fighter admiring it and caressing its wicked-looking body . . . as if I were rolling old sherry around on my tongue. . . . Like a beautiful woman, it demanded constant attention." At last, with his plane's shark mouth "seeming to drip saliva," he went out for action...
...political figure during the suppression of the Congress party, shouted his battle cry of Pakistan. Behind him, huge maps indicated that Pakistan (a separate Moslem state) took in all three North Western provinces and vaulted over the huge United Provinces and Bihar to include Bengal and Assam in the northeast. This was the most ambitious claim to territories since Jinnah had first espoused Pakistan as a slogan to bargain against Hindu political domination. The directed cheers of his party and the pandal (huge tent) bright with Pakistan banners (see cut) heartened...
...tobacco farmer, stove manufacturer and general trader of Maysville, Ky., had been up to. He had been surveying the jungle, dickering with the savage Naga headhunters of the region, and setting up a series of vital military outposts in the trackless country between the U.S. air bases in northern Assam and Jap advance lines in Burma...
Once relations were established (and the chief had his watch), Kehoe could usually get several hundred workmen under a "dobashie," or native foreman, to clear the site and set up native huts. He paid them off in silver rupees. Some posts are several weeks' trek from Assam, and food and supplies are sent out by plane...
...square miles of Burma at a time, cutting Jap lines of communication, raiding Jap outposts, throwing the enemy into confusion far behind the front lines. Troops used were not specially picked men, but they were highly trained; for six months Brigadier Wingate had worked them in the Assam jungles...