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...Jap column which seized Lashio is coming up the Burma Road to China, with the possibility that it may swing in toward Bhamo in an attempt to sever all our communications with China. Another column is about to seize Mandalay. A third force has already taken Monywa and the Junction of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin Rivers, threatening to outflank...
...this terrific Jap pressure, plus food and water scarcity and the noncompletion of roads to India, that makes the task so difficult. The railway line leading to a dead end at Myitkyina has been repeatedly smashed by Jap bombers, interrupted by Burmese saboteurs loosening rails, opening switches and shooting at wrecking crews in the dark. Small, tough jeeps may be able to negotiate the oxcart tracks and are being commandeered to carry out the wounded, but the majority must walk. Whether they escape depends upon whether Alexander and Stilwell can block off roads to stem the Jap advance, and whether...
...Chinese garrison in the darkness through the completely flattened ruins of a city of onetime 120,000 population, where now only stand the red-washed, almost encircled walls of the palace of Burma's kings. The last rear guard was hurrying across after holding up the main Jap force with just a handful...
...another their sporting "Tallyho" as they sight the enemy and plunge out of formation to attack. The serious Germans will still rasp their guttural "Achtung! Achtung!" as they spot the foe. But the gallant, hell-for-leather professional pilots of the American Volunteer Group suddenly glimpsing a Jap formation will no longer have reason to exchange their gleeful call: "Certified check...
...while it lasted. The A.V.G.'s flyers knew their stuff from the start, got many a fine point from their C.O., many another the hard way from the Jap. Astute Claire Chennault, as fine a pursuit pilot as ever zoomed a hangar, recognized their abilities, reveled in their high spirits and let them have the run of the sky. They flew pretty much as it pleased them, picked their objectives as lightheartedly as boys going on a picnic, collected their checks, and spent their money (a lot of it on whiskey at $50 a bottle...