Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coast. But there was no indication that the Japs intended to confirm this view. Once food supplies had been laid up and winter uniforms provided for their troops, the Japanese were likely to strike again toward Kweiyang and Kunming, try again to cut off China from the Ledo-Burma Road (see below...
...northern Burma the Japanese were all but washed up. There was no continuous front-there could be none across the forbidding north-south ridges. But between the ridges, four Allied armies were probing southward like the fingers of a hand; another, like an opposed thumb, was flexing southwestward from China's Yunnan Province. The enemy was fighting only rearguard actions. Obviously he was falling back upon his supply bases in central Burma...
...after 28 days of siege by the Chinese 38th Division. Last week it was annihilated in an attempt at a breakout. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan, theater commander, tramped through the smoldering ruins of Bhamo's teakwood fortress, called it one of the strongest Jap positions in north Burma...
Other fingers of the Allied hand probed directly toward Mandalay. The British resumed their two-year-old drive on Akyab through Arakan, made faster progress. The stagnation in Burma was ended...
...valiant, skillful flyers of Burma's treacherous Hump route were not all heroes. Last week the Army ruefully revealed that some had been low-grade scoundrels. Working with experienced Chinese, Burmese and Indian gangs, they had been smuggling gold, jewelry, drugs, arms and other contraband from India to China for more than two years, had piled up personal profits amounting to more than $4 million...