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...page 26 you will find excerpts from White's story of what he saw from the lead bomber as it dropped its fragmentations from almost suicide level on the Jap bombers massed along the runway just below. If the raid had failed of complete surprise, half the American flyers might have been shot down. Actually everything went off with such perfect precision that "all it cost us was the gasoline...
...Jap, short of planes, possibly even of trained jungle fighters, was grievously hurt. He could not adequately protect both the New Ireland-New Guinea area and the Central Pacific islands with what he had in sight. One battle zone or the other would have to remain weak, or reinforcements would have to be rushed from distant zones. Chungking reports indicated that the Japanese might be doing just this: fleet concentrations were said to be moving south off Fukien Province, and heavy troop movements were taking place from Manchukuo and North China...
...task force also rescues fallen air men. One afternoon we picked up five of our men. The Jap airmen were less interested in this gratuitous service. Four Japs on a raft shot themselves rather than be captured...
...mile-long Hukawng Valley (see map). In the Chin hills to the south and west, where opium-smoking tribes men are still loyal, the British claimed the west bank of the Chindwin. The campaign has a limited but sharply important objective: to pry a right of way through the Jap-held hinterland for the builders of the Ledo Road (TIME. Oct. 11). In time, if all goes well, it will link India's Assam to China's Yünnan, reopen a channel of ground supply for the long-enduring people of Chiang Kaishek...
...Chinese, trained and equipped by Americans in India, carried the heaviest burden in this opening phase of the continental offensive. In the tortuous jungle country before them, supply was the key to military success. The Jap relied on broad rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main Burma bases to the northern front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking...