Word: chindwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three points near the Burma-India line the Japanese counterattacked. They crossed the Chindwin River in force, at week's end were almost across the Indian border to Manipur. If they succeeded in reaching their goal (Stilwell's and Chennault's supply lines), the Japs might make the other actions look like tea parties, might nullify all Allied gains since they ran Stilwell out of Burma two years...
...crack Chinese troops in three weeks had advanced 50 miles, were at the southern tip of the 50-mile-long Hukawng Valley (see map). In the Chin hills to the south and west, where opium-smoking tribes men are still loyal, the British claimed the west bank of the Chindwin. The campaign has a limited but sharply important objective: to pry a right of way through the Jap-held hinterland for the builders of the Ledo Road (TIME. Oct. 11). In time, if all goes well, it will link India's Assam to China's Yünnan...
Under the Ferns. Near Homalin the party left their rafts and began the hike which was to take them to the Chindwin River and over the harsh border mountains to India. The homespun, bowlegged general slogged along with his eye obstinately on his watch, counting out 105 steps to the minute. Cases of malaria cropped out. Faces grew thin. Pus-filled jungle sores broke out on legs and feet. Men stopped joking. They were in the jungle: "Festooned with giant green ferns, decorated with palms such as we had thought grew only in hotel lobbies, and laced and hung with...
...particularly stress, and it is the danger of speculating on future moves. . . . For example, when I was in Burma last year, I laid most careful plans for misleading the Japanese into thinking we would withdraw north towards Myitkyina, whereas it was my intention to slip away and across the Chindwin River at Kalewa, thereby extricating my force from an almost impossible position. . . . To my consternation, the night before we moved, it was given out on the air that 'the British forces are withdrawing to their base at Kalewa.' The result was that we were partially...
...three weeks General Stilwell had led his little band through Burma's parched thickets, teakwood forests and steaming jungles, across the Chindwin River, up mountain trails over 7,000-ft. Saijapao Pass and down into India. And it was Uncle Joe, oldest man in the crowd, who always led them. He acted as company commander, mess sergeant, guide, gun bearer, nurse. He kept the company at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps a minute; his men called it "The Stilwell Stride...