Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road to China was again open. The land blockade of China was pierced; now there was once more an overland route from India (see map). In the northern Burma Theater, Wanting finally fell and 10,000 ragged Japanese were driven back down the road to Lashio. Soldiers from China pushed on to join hands with soldiers from India...
...over "Pick's Pike" to Myitkyina. The first convoy got through to Tengyueh in China via "Chiang's Lane," the narrow alternate roadway 50,000 coolies had hacked over 8,000-ft. mountains. When last-ditch Jap suicide squads are cleaned up, other convoys, using the old Burma Road from Wanting north, would help feed China's munitions-starved armies...
Couldn't you tell us more about Ursula Graham-Bower, the female T. E. Lawrence of northern Burma? (TIME, Jan. 1). Your story whets my appetite for more. At any rate, since she "looks like a cinemactress," couldn't you give us a picture of this pretty guerrillist...
China's Biggest. When Mike Mansfield left the U.S., he felt sure that China's biggest problem was supply. He stayed long enough to change his mind. He rode the unfinished Ledo-Burma road, learned that supplies were being flown over the Hump at the monthly rate (for November) of 34,929 tons, and was told that trickle would be upped sharply with the road's completion, expected soon. In Chungking and elsewhere he talked with U.S. generals, Chinese leaders. The more he saw and heard, the more Mike Mansfield was convinced that China's gravest...
...west, in Burma, five Japanese divisions had been destroyed, but five remained. They were all but cut off, and likely to be left for their nuisance value. In the rest of Southeast Asia were at least five more Jap divisions, plus brigades of garrison troops. The enemy was not ready to abandon Southeast Asia. In China he was busy tearing up spur lines to get ties and rails for completing the overland route to Indo-China. The only purpose of this line, if it is ever opened, would be to drag out resistance in the vast peninsula...