Word: assam
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Well camouflaged, lazy-looking spots became busy, alert shacks, anti-aircraft pits, airplanes. On the flanks of planes could be seen the pilots' emblem-a droopy-tailed dragon with the motto: "Our Assam Draggin...
Life was getting dull for the fighter boys in Assam. They had been stationed there since last summer to protect the air supply line to China...
...Fighting Dragons met 18 Jap bombers, 25 fighters. They shot down nine positives, 20 probables. They themselves all came home safely, and for a few hours life did not seem quite so dull to the fighter boys in Assam...
...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...
...Then? New Delhi correspondents were allowed to cable that U.S. ground forces had completed a network of airdromes and supply points in India and Assam. London broke the news that the battleships Warspite, Royal Sovereign and Resolution and the aircraft carrier Illustrious were in the Indian Ocean...