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...hope to the last that it would not have to fight had gone into the war on a dollar basis. On the theory that it could buy its way out of trouble, the U.S. was throwing its wealth and production on the side of the Allies when the Jap struck at Pearl Harbor...
...Jap's aim in this drive was perfectly plain. In fact, Tokyo announced it to the world itself. Over in China, said Tokyo, Claire Chennault was readying an air attack on the mainland of Japan. It could be stopped only by cutting the railroad. Whatever the Jap's estimate of Chennault's intentions was worth, his estimate of the importance of the Bengal-Assam railway was exaggerated...
...doctrine that Burma's mountains and jungles were impossible to Anglo-Saxon troops. In a great and winning gamble to drive the enemy from North Burma, he was beginning to win. Joe Stilwell was fighting on the "impossible" ground, taking supplies from the air, pushing doggedly toward the Jap's pivotal base at Myitkyina. Wingate's Raiders, Merrill's Marauders and Joe Stilwell's force of Chinese and Americans had shown there was no unsolvable mystery about Burma fighting...
...with the gasoline and parts that still give the tightly knit Allied Air Force control of the air and the power to lay down what the Burma fighters needed on the Allied "dropping grounds" in the jungles. If the railway fell, Joe Stilwell's venture would fail. The Jap had made a neat estimate of the situation...
...Jap bodies were strung like rags on the barbed wire around the American beachhead on Bougainville. In the torn jungle beyond, they lay like rotten fruit on the musty ground. While the attack was on-six futile assaults-the Japs had even sent their walking wounded back into action, to charge again. The Americans had mowed them down. At week's end the Japs were withdrawing, possibly to reorganize. In the month since the assault began they had lost 3,508 counted dead-20 for every American killed-and many more wiped , out in the jungle by artillery...