Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhaustion had plucked younger men from the line, but Uncle Joe, then 59, never faltered. He refused to ride one of the caravan's few mules: they were for the nurses and the wounded. Somehow the ragged line struggled through to the roadhead in India. The first, disastrous Burma campaign was ended...
Said the durable old man who had led the retreat: "I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. We ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake...
That was in May 1942, in the darkest hour of the war. General Joseph W. Stilwell had spoken bluntly and honestly; and he was determined to go back to that lost Burma...
...general in World War II, he was beloved by his troops. He was demanding, but fair: he saw to it that officers looked out for their men. He mixed with the common soldiers in the mud and they respected him. Besides being commander of all U.S. forces in China, Burma and India, he was Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff and commander of all Chinese troops in Burma and India. He was on the same terms with the Chinese G.I. (he spoke efeven Chinese dialects) as with Americans...
...Died. General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 63, tough, leathery wartime commander of the U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India Theater during the first grim two years of the war; of a liver ailment; in San Francisco (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...