Word: chindwin
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Stilwell, showing no signs of wear except gradually thinning cheeks, led the untrained party of civilians and soldiers through the elephant trails and teakwood forests and jungles of northern Burma, across the Chindwin River over a 7,000-ft. pass into a cloud-enveloped land of head-hunting tribesmen to final safety in India, only a few days' march ahead of the Japanese, without losing a single member of the party...
...coming up the Burma Road to China, with the possibility that it may swing in toward Bhamo in an attempt to sever all our communications with China. Another column is about to seize Mandalay. A third force has already taken Monywa and the Junction of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin Rivers, threatening to outflank...