Word: humping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma." But even if Stilwell should be cut off by the Japanese thrust at Imphal, it might be possible to supply him by air, although with great difficulty during the monsoon. Much worse would be the very serious reduction, if not elimination, of supplies for China over the Hump...
...Imphal runs the little narrow-gauge railroad which was built to connect the tea plantations of Assam with the outer world. The over burdened single track now carries all the supplies for General Stilwell's front, plus goods for delivery to northern Assam airfields, for transport over the Hump to China. If Kawabe cuts this railroad, he will have fixed Stilwell exactly as Wingate's Raiders have fixed the Japanese opposing Stilwell-cut them off from their bases...
...Japanese columns of uncertain strength were converging on Imphal, which lies just a little to the east of the lateral railroad that extends 250 miles to Ledo-the supply route for General Stilwell's forces advancing into northern Burma and for the goods that are shipped over the Hump by air to China. If the Japanese should take Imphal-last week they were only 30 miles away-they would be within reach of the railroad through which flow the supplies for both Stilwell and China...
...across northern Burma over some of the world's cruelest, most miasmic terrain, clearing Japs from the path of the new Ledo Road which hopefully will connect with the old Burma Road. Thus eventually a route to China may be opened to supplement supply by airplanes flying the "hump...
...hear the news from southeast Asia at first hand. Those who were not asked to lunch plunged headlong into weighty speculations on present and future Allied strategy in Burma. General Wedemeyer, emerging from the White House, said nothing. Said the President: Supplies are reaching China over the Himalayan Hump in a "satisfactory" manner...