Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until next spring there would be daily scheduled flights from India and Burma to Chungking and beyond, but now they could follow a more southerly course over the "low-Hump," by way of Myit-kyina. By year's end, Air Forces personnel in the India-China Division of the Air Transport Command will be down to around 9,000, from a peak of 35,000 (including 4,712 pilots...
General McClure ran his show from a spacious compound in Kunming, a stone's throw from the terminus of the Burma Road. He bellowed, spark-plugged and steamrollered the Chinese divisions within the C.C.C. from an amorphous lump into a cohesive weapon. He was assisted by such capable officers as Brigadier General George Olmstead, 44, a levelheaded lowan who ran G5; and Brigadier General Paul Caraway, 39, West Point-trained son of Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway and an outstanding planner, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff...
...Azon, an ordinary bomb, fitted with a radio-controlled tail surface, which can be steered to right or left by the bombardier of the plane from which it is dropped. It was used successfully in Italy and Burma...
General Joe Stilwell, who should know, volunteered a definition of a G.I.: "A special brand of American who inhabited North Africa, France, Italy, Germany, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Okinawa, Luzon, Burma, China, Iceland, India, Korea, Japan and other places, from 1941 to 1945 . . . swears in good style, likes pretty girls, milk, steak, beer, cheesecake and swing music, and is a sucker for a place called the U.S. . . . hates Japs, Germans, C rations and draft dodgers...
...fast for me"), ITMA doubles up its British listeners. Puns like "Farewell to the night shifts of Dover" or "the lease lend the soonest mended" are a Handley trademark. So are topical quips like "I haven't laughed so much since Errol Flynn captured Burma." ITMA's rapid-fire cacophony of explosions, whistles, popguns, yawps, quacks and trambells draws enthusiastic letters from Continental listeners, who can't understand English, but find the sound effects screamingly funny...