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...eastern Burma the British massed troops in a race against time. They wanted to assemble enough strength either to protect the United Nations' supply line to China, or to slash the Jap's supply lines into Malaya. But the Jap threw the first punch and opened a new front...
...Jap had three purposes behind his drive. First he wanted Rangoon, unloading point for the supplies that go up the Burma Road to Chiang Kaishek. Second he wanted to dig in there against the day when he could lash out at India. Finally, he wanted to beat the British to the draw in their "must" offensive against the Japanese supply line to Malaya...
...Jap drove decisively through the mountains, and by week's end the head of his thrust lay close to the flat land extending east from Moulmein. The defenders' withdrawal had been orderly. Now they hoped to slice up the Jap in terrain that was more to their liking. Meanwhile, 150 miles south on Burma's slender panhandle, the Jap had grabbed Tavoy. In that position he held a secondary block against any British push to the south, which at the moment was unlikely...
...Jap was busy, but his experience was mostly unhappy. In one raid the defenders downed 21 planes. In another the Jap lost all seven bombers and nine escorting fighters while admiring Burmese watched American-made Brewster Buffaloes and Curtiss P-40s swirling through a chattering dogfight. Between times an Allied force of 57 bombers and fighters swung into Indo-China, lashed fiercely at a big Jap airdrome at Hanoï. It was the heaviest blow struck in the area delegated to Chiang Kai-shek by the Allied Supreme Command (Thailand and Indo-China). The raiders reported they smashed...
...fateful Sunday morning, the Chaplain of a battleship in Pearl Harbor was busy on the afterdeck with a couple of assistants, running up the bunting and adjusting the rig in preparation for divine service. Their polite murmurs were suddenly interrupted by the roar of the Jap. The Chaplain dropped his bunting, ran to an anti-aircraft gun and began preaching lead to the Japanese...