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...supplies went up in smoke and flame. Ahead of the Jap spearhead, U.S. engineers set the torch to the base's munitions dumps. Thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition and fighting equipment of all kinds, stored up with infinite pain from the trickle of supply across the Hump from India, were blasted to destruction in a 48-hour holocaust...
...defeated at Kweilin. The first break in their successive defeats was last week's victory in Kweichow. The road to victory was still up the sharp sides of mountains. But with T.V. at work again, there was a new faith that China would one day get over the hump...
...which carries both gasoline and oil, had been laid far into Burma. It had had steady use, had paid off at the fighting fronts with release of planes and transport from fuel chores. It now crossed three rivers, must still cross several more. Once completed, it would also free Hump flyers and the Road's truckers into China for transport of guns, munitions and food. Thousands of tons of ammunition and artillery await the day in India's stockpiles...
...experts would probably concentrate on getting maximum production from China's steel furnaces. Alloy steel and other critical materials not available in China would still be flown in over the Hump. The Americans would also try to increase liquid fuel production against the day when U.S. trucks would roll again up the Burma Road...
...retrieving were to be done in China, it would have to be done with arms and supplies shipped in along a reopened Burma Road and an expanded airline over the Hump. While ill-supplied Chinese were dying hopelessly at Kweilin, well-supplied Chinese were fighting hopefully and successfully in the jungles of Burma, closing in on Bhamo, terminus of the northern (alternate) branch of the Burma Road...