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...this week they were outnumbered on the land, outgunned on the sea. The Jap was pressing hard and the Allies were strictly on the defensive. They were going to have plenty of trouble, for the Jap's bases were moving south like a fast creeping paralysis across the South Seas...
Crashing south toward Singapore, the Jap had more than the glory of the Mikado to drive him on. He was in a desperate race with time, and if he could not beat the hands of the clock, his push to the strategic hub of the Far East was going to be a historic failure...
...Jap recognized the danger. He stabbed at Rangoon with his bombers, with the dual purpose of knocking out Allied aircraft and smashing the supply depots for the Burma Road. He missed the Chinese Army's supplies, dissipated his effort. There was a reason: U.S. pilots...
...lies a long chain of flying fields, all the way back to Calcutta and beyond. By this route new planes were coming to be added to Burma's thin complement of bombers and U.S.-made fighters. The Allies raided Bangkok, reported they set great fires. They pounced on Jap airfields, riddling their ground establishments. In one raid near week's end, returning pilots reported they had smashed up 27 Jap planes, mostly bombers, on the ground...
...enough should arrive in time, General Hutton might well cut across into Thailand after the Jap. But it was more easily said than done, even with a big force. Thailand and Burma have long been uppity neighbors. Their railroad and highway systems do not mesh, and the border country is mountainous, wild and miasmic in the low places. Yet Germany in Greece and Japan in Malaya have shown that an army with the will and equipment can traverse any kind of country, fighting as it goes. Up-to-snuff military men like General Hutton must have profited from their examples...