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...monsoons come from the southwest, heralded by thunderstorms, and torrents run down the hillsides, baring the ribs of the earth. The valleys are quagmires then, and the flooded Irrawaddy rolls great sluggish masses of water through its many mouths to the sea. But not for two months yet. The Jap had time to take Burma, if he was not stopped, and he was not stopped last week...
Burmese fifth columnists continued to join the Japs, who paddled up the Irrawaddy in small boats to make contact with traitors on the banks. In southern Burma the Japs were moving supplies on elephant-back- obviously aided by Burmese mahouts, since the Jap and the elephant are not well acquainted. American Volunteer Group flyers machine-gunned the elephants, and when that failed to drop or even halt the beasts, the flyers dumped fire bombs, hoping to start stampedes...
...Allies' Blenheim bombers had nearly all been shot down, Tokyo gloated, and only Spitfires and U.S. P-4Os were left. Whether or not this was true, heavy Japanese air reinforcements seemed to be flowing in from the conquered East Indies. At week's end a massive Jap force- 60 bombers and 20 fighters-blasted an Allied airdrome somewhere back of the fighting fronts. First reports had only two Japs shot down...
...Stilwell believes in getting close to his men; he was already referring to the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma as "my armies." Those ragged, clean and tough young fighters chewed up a band of 300 queasy Thai troops near the Thailand border, routed a force of 400 Jap foot and horse soldiers south of Toungoo. Said General Stilwell...
...weeks of comparative quiet before & after MacArthur's departure, General Yamashita had undoubtedly regrouped his forces. He had also moved some 240-mm. (about 9½ in.) guns into position somewhere along the edges of Manila Bay. They were the biggest guns yet used by the Jap in Luzon, and they began blasting at the fortress of Corregidor, where General Wainwright makes his headquarters...