Word: india-burma
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...sign reads: "Welcome to Burma-Courtesy of the Hairy Ears." It stands beside a crude road that plunges through the jungles, curls around the southeastern slopes of the mountains on the India-Burma border. The Hairy Ears are the U.S. Army engineers who for ten months now have been working on a prodigious undertaking-the "Ledo Road," a new route into Burma. Last week the Army proudly unveiled...
...Japanese divisions, about 90,000 men, were said to be packed into Burma, more than enough to garrison the country, perhaps the beginnings of enough to attack India. The R.A.F. and U.S. airmen in India bombed Mandalay, Mingaladon, Toungoo, the Jap positions on the India-Burma border...
Over the Mountains. Southern Burma was all but gone. General Sir Archibald Wavell, taking over the India-Burma command (see p. 19), had to assume that it was gone. He had then to decide what more to defend for the salvation of India...