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...fear of being flanked by another Jap cross-thrust, the British on the Irrawaddy River pulled back their lines toward Prome...
...Jap moved north toward the oilfields and the mountain passes at the junction of the India-Burma-China border, he took with him a rabble of Burmese traitors, looters from the slums of Rangoon, red-brown Karen tribesmen who have brandished their sharp heavy dahs at the British, off & on, for more than a half-century. Between thrusts, the Jap rested in the zeyats which Burmese Buddhists build for the ease of travelers and of their own souls in the next world...
Pilots Kenneth Jernstedt and William Reed popped out of a cloud into the hot blue sky over Burma. Below them, on the Jap-held airdrome at Moulmein, 25 or more enemy planes were lined up in tempting rows. The two "Flying Tigers" clawed the field with incendiary bullets, and Jernstedt dropped small fire bombs which he had packed into his flare release. The field was a junk heap of burning, exploding Jap planes when Jernstedt and Reed gunned their P-405 away, over the Salween River...
...days later the Japs retaliated with a big bomber raid on an American Volunteer Group airdrome. Alone, Pilot Parker Dupuoy tackled the first wave of 27 bombers. Eight Jap fighters charged him. He blew up one fighter at 17,000 ft., then his ammunition ran out and he scooted for the field, on which bombs were already dropping. When he landed, a bomb fragment creased his right arm. Jernstedt, who had gone up to help him, got a bloody face from a shattered windshield, but landed his plane safely...
When the second Jap wave came over, bomb fragments wounded a pilot and two mechanics in a trench flanking the runway. An A.V.G. doctor lugged the pilot to a jeep and drove it across the field to a hospital, with Jap bullets chasing him in the dust like puffs from his own exhaust pipe. One of the mechanics died. In an ambulance plane the pilot and the other mechanic were carried over the mountains to Calcutta...