Word: chindwin
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...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...
...march down the middle of a stream. Sand got into our shoes and socks and my sores got four times as big as they had been. Then we had three days on rafts made of rotten bamboos. My bed was six inches under water. Then we crossed the Chindwin and started up and down some awfully steep hills, some 7,000 feet high. I had had malaria every couple of weeks since December and the day we reached the Assam border I couldn't have walked another step. When we reached civilization I was down to 50% hemoglobin...
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...
...Chinese Army units under Stilwell's command were one day's march behind us when we crossed the Chindwin, but we have had no news of them since then. We have reason to believe that the greater portion of the Chinese Army, except the unit left in the hills of the Shan States at the time of the Jap drive toward Lashio, are safe...
...major goal on this trip was the Chindwin River. We crossed it a few days ahead of the Japanese...