Word: bengals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from the jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil. So, in spite of New Delhi assurances, the spring-legged little invaders seemed a greater threat every day to the Bengal-Assam railway...
...world itself. Over in China, said Tokyo, Claire Chennault was readying an air attack on the mainland of Japan. It could be stopped only by cutting the railroad. Whatever the Jap's estimate of Chennault's intentions was worth, his estimate of the importance of the Bengal-Assam railway was exaggerated...
History was repeating itself in the sawtooth mountains and jungled valleys of the Arakan where the Burma-India border touches the Bay of Bengal...
...moment the rice would go around. Bengal's harvest had been good, Viceroy Lord Wavell's speed-up of food transport effective, foreign charity helpful. But all this was amelioration, not solution. The blown and shriveled masses who had not starved to death in the famine areas of northeastern India were scourged now by pestilence, by cholera, dysentery, malaria, dropsy, pneumonia. The famine had sharpened India's old and limitless needs: more rice, in steady supply; milk for her children; medicines for her sick; shelter for her homeless. Without these, thus far merely trickling in, there would...
Hero of the attack was Lieut. Commander L. W. A. Bennington, commander of a submarine force (the "Porpoise Carrier") which kept Malta alive at the height of its blockade. In the Pacific, his submarine crept through the grey-green waters of the Bay of Bengal, past the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which screen the Singapore-Rangoon sea lanes, scouted the narrow (225 mi.) northern approaches of the Malacca Straits. He attacked and sank three large cargo vessels, sighted the cruiser and closed at full speed...