Word: jap
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...China World War II could be lost, just as it could be lost on the Russian front. Major General Lewis Brereton's Air Forces from India could smash destructively at the Jap in the north-as they did-and the R.A.F. could go on raining bombs on the Jap's ports on the Bay of Bengal-as it did. Stilwell could fight his way out. The R.A.F. could batter the German in Europe, turn back the Jap in the Coral Sea. But if the foe struck deep enough into China from the south, if he could pile...
From China, with footslogging infantry troops and all the rolling forces he could spare, Chiang Kai-shek moved south to meet them. Chiang threw another force into Burma far to the east, by fierce battling kept the Jap on the west side of the turgid Salween River...
...Burma Road, behind the south-marching Chinese, another Jap force sprang up. Apparently it had come from Indo-China. Chiang, blinded by lack of reconnaissance, wheeled to meet this attack...
Chinese troops died silently, bitterly, in remote spots where history might never note the glory of their end. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell's force, cut off in the bowels of Burma, came out of its position with a rush, jammed into the Jap communication lines above Mandalay and made havoc. Some of the Jap forces swung back to meet him, and there, by a strange cyclic development, Japanese fought toward the south and Chinese toward the north...
What China's Fight Means. While India quivered with the Jap threat to its sinewless, amorphous soul, calm words came from China's headquarters. Reverses there were nothing new, and wherever Chinese and Japanese had met, the Chinese had given good account of themselves. They had even forced the Jap back in some spots in Yunnan Province. But China's undaunted face masked a foreboding soul...