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...claimed the west bank of the Chindwin. The campaign has a limited but sharply important objective: to pry a right of way through the Jap-held hinterland for the builders of the Ledo Road (TIME. Oct. 11). In time, if all goes well, it will link India's Assam to China's Yünnan, reopen a channel of ground supply for the long-enduring people of Chiang Kaishek...
...trading (TIME, May 31). Kehoe was off to negotiate with Naga headhunters for military outposts and to survey the wild country through which the new road was to pass. Last December the engineers moved surreptitiously into rolling green tea gardens on the far eastern fringes of India's Assam Province. There they set up "X Base" near a little one-lane gravelly road which British Indian labor had started. On Dee. 15 they started work...
...failed all her studies in school. All were little things weighing from 80 to 110 pounds. All eventually learned Burmese, and some learned English. They were excellent nurses when Seagrave got through, and to everyone's surprise the 30 or so who walked from Burma into Assam behind Stilwell stood the trip better than any of the other marchers...
Seagrave made it on rafts, ponies and at last a first-class compartment on an Indian .train where he slept on the floor "to ease my conscience." At the end of the book Seagrave is in Assam, happily planning hospital facilities to take care of the refugees out of Burma: "So pitiful. . . . They are starved and emaciated and . . . have picked up the most virulent forms of malaria, amebic and bacillary dysentery." The doctor and his own malaria (which he says he could cure if he had time to go to bed) are somewhere in India still...
...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...