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Perhaps the loneliness of the jungle explained it, perhaps it was merely because there was a great variety of livestock available; whatever the reason, the British Fourteenth Army in Burma was the world's best at collecting pets. It was a tradition. The late Major General Orde C. Wingate had taken a cow buffalo along on his raids, once restored its health with precious brandy. Brigadier "Mad Mike" Calvert's favorite was an elephant named Flossie. In Arakan an officer keeps a bear...
...Mandalay alone had the British Fourteenth Army set up three hard-won bridgeheads on the wide Irrawaddy River above & below the city. Broad, hearty Lieut. General Sir William J. Slim was after bigger game...
...often our correspondents at the battlefronts send word of our military absentees. For example, one of Annalee Jacoby's first cables from Chungking started off with a size-up of the situation at Liuchow ("Eight of our air bases are missing") by Captain Gerald McAllister of the Fourteenth Air Force - once an office boy in our Washington Bureau...
...Fourteenth Air Force had lost most of its bases in eastern China (TIME, Dec. 11), but it refused to be downed...
...fourteenth, 25-foot Christmas balsam from Berlin (N.Y.), sent to him each year by the New York State Conservation Department...