Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army engineer detachments, 65% of them Negro troops, could stand by the Ledo-Burma Road and proudly watch the supply trucks roll up to China. Through two rain-lashed monsoon seasons they had labored, helped string an all-weather pavement over 1,044 miles of mountain jungle, helped build some 600 bridges. Now they could add up the cost: for every mile, an estimated $1,000,000 and a U.S. soldier's life...
...miles south of Mandalay), to seize eight Jap airfields. There and on the way there the British killed 1,600 Japs. With one punch they had severed the enemy's land and water links from Rangoon to Mandalay, and had virtually cut off the main forces defending Burma. The next move was up to the Japs -if they could make...
Objective, Burma! (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull; TIME...
After four months in the Burma jungle, plagued with Delhi sores, and drinking water from mud holes polluted with long-time dead Japs, holding a small disk of glass in one's eye with complete aplomb calls for steel nerves...
Objective, Burma! (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull; TIME...