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...shek's elite divisions and equipped with rifles, bayonets, hand grenades, light & heavy machine guns, trench mortars and automatic pistols. Many of them were already in action on the Salween front. New arrivals strung out protectively along the Burma Road north of Lashio or skirmished with the Jap along the Thai border...
...Jap could be expected to move in fresh reinforcements for his battered troops, to provide his own naval support via the Strait of Malacca to the Burma coast. With Singapore gone, the United Nations could not be held to their earlier promise, to hold Rangoon until the last defender falls...
...Jap settled briskly to his task. This week the British conceded that renewed enemy pressure had forced Imperial forces back 30 miles nearer to Rangoon. The Allied line halted, reformed on the Bilin River's west bank. Rangoon's last stand seemed imminent...
Action in the Marshalls. The yellow Pacific moon saw what the Jap had never thought to see. Spaced along a 200-mile ocean front, from the Marshall to the Gilbert Islands, was an assault force of U.S. cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers, led by a blue-water sailor and naval flyer, Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. (see cut, p. 23). They were ready to strike the Jap in his stolen strongholds-2,300 miles from Pearl Harbor, but nearest of all his bastions to Hawaii...
Scout bombers delivered the first blows at the Jap's main airdromes; torpedo planes followed them into his chief anchorages. Surface ships moved in on likely shore targets. From a Jap airdrome five bombers managed to take off, head for a carrier. A U.S. fighter set a Jap's engine afire...