Word: indo-china
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...influences dominated his one hobby-shooting and hunting. He became one of the crack shots of the service, captained rifle teams, became a skeet champion. On his leaves he packed off to hunt big game-caribou and moose in Canada, elephants and tigers in Indo-China...
...perhaps stronger. Its 4,000,000 soldiers are organized in 70 combat divisions of about 20,000 men each, plus almost twice as many reserves and service troops. The 70 divisions are distributed: eight in the home islands; ten in Burma, Thailand, Indo-China and Malaya; 20 in the Philip pines, the Netherlands Indies and Pacific islands; 32 in China and Manchuria. In southeast Asia the Japs also have 70,000 quisling troops - Burmese, Malays, Thais and a few Indians. Militarily these are an unknown quantity...
...Japs were bound not only for Kweilin, capital of Kwangsi Province, but also for Chenankwan on the French Indo-China border. If they ever got there, East China, with its bases from which Chennault's hard-driven aviators harass the enemy from Shanghai to Formosa to Hainan, would be lost. From such a catastrophe, the Pacific commands of General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz would suffer almost as much as the Chinese...
Year IV. The Japs took over Indo-China. The British reopened the Burma Road. The U.S. embargoed iron & steel to Japan, lent the first $100,000,000 to China. From his Chungking capital Chiang Kai-shek voiced an old belief: that most of the world hated aggressors, wanted peace; that if China held on, powerful allies would come to her side. China held...
...Problem. For the first time, hints of friction in Southeast Asia had been spoken out loud. Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten differs with Stilwell, looks far into the future, wants to retake Sumatra, Malaya (with Singapore), Thailand, Indo-China, punch through a sea route to China. Stilwell's Chinese troops and his air force are necessary for that program...