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The handsome, confident Admiral began his task last month when he flew to Chungking. He consulted with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, bluntly asked for his advice on continental strategy, had an initial success such as no other British military leader had attained in China. Dour "Uncle Joe" Stilwell was also impressed...
The Jap, short of planes, possibly even of trained jungle fighters, was grievously hurt. He could not adequately protect both the New Ireland-New Guinea area and the Central Pacific islands with what he had in sight. One battle zone or the other would have to remain weak, or reinforcements...
China. The Japanese mounted their fourth offensive in the Tungting Lake district of central China. Purposes of the drive, as usual, were: 1) to devastate a rich agricultural area, 2) to give green troops experience, 3) to alarm Chungking. Crack Allied-trained, air-supplied Chinese troops drove into Burma to...
There were no communiqués. But the problems were clear. First & foremost, with good will and common sense, order had to be brought into the chaotic, overlapping organization of the continental front against Japan. Another problem was Burma. The men at Chungking certainly weighed the great difficulties of a...
A Bridgehead Lost. To China, the Jap blow was serious. Six hundred miles southwest of Chungking, the enemy moved from northern Burma into Yünnan. His columns struck at a pocket of Chinese troops who for a year and a half have held, against attack and malaria, a 13...