Word: huilungshan
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Here on this mountaintop in the sun is the end of the long campaign. Not even Hollywood could have written it better. The 7,500-ft. mountain over there that the Japs hold is called Huilungshan and it is on the border of China. On the other side is Burma. Chinese soldiers are going to take that mountain and pierce the blockade of China...
...Scene Is Set. Now the sun rises from the east behind us in China and throws its glare directly on the Japs on the mountain to the west, blinding them. From our observation post on the hill nearest to Huilungshan, the whole battlefield seems very theatrical, very beautiful...
...Curtain Is Up. Artillery pops behind us. A few seconds go by and then, as if teacher were pointing out something on the blackboard with a mile-long pointer, three smoke plumes rise from the crest of Huilungshan...
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