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...less valuable, were huge rubber relief maps of enemy territory which could be rolled up like a rug. For castaways on life rafts: charts on rubberized cloth. For flyers over "the Hump": a cloth map with a request for aid printed on it in Chinese, Burmese, Lisu, Kachin, Hindustani, Bengali-and English...
...mountain far in the north the "Jmghpaw Elders of the United States Army"* gathered to celebrate. These Kachin tribesmen, armed with everything from bazookas to an issue of 500 good-as-new Civil War muskets, had taken Uncle Sam's 30? a day and fought the Japanese over the mountain trails in one of the war's toughest campaigns. Once 46 Kachins held a pass against 470 Japs, and killed 22; another time eleven Kachins held a ridge against 100 Japs. Now the admiring womenfolk, garbed in silver bracelets, colored turbans, hand-woven jackets and lungis (bright-hued...
...Kachin designation for the native guer rilla units the U.S. Army called the American Kachin Rangers...
Merrill's Marauders arrived in India in October, soon got used to the Burma jungle. From Ledo last month they began their 100-mile circling march to the rear of the Japanese concentrations at Maingkwan, averaging 20 miles a day down crude trails Kachin tribes of Burmese had hacked many years ago. To avoid ambush, greatest terror of jungle warfare, intelligence and reconnaissance squads always patrolled the trails ahead of and behind their columns. Only once were they fooled by a grass dummy which was covered by a Jap machine gun- two men were killed but the lesson...
Soon began the famous retreat with Stilwell (TIME, June 1). It was a strange group-26 Americans, 13 British, 16 Chinese, two doctors, seven Quaker ambulance drivers, 19 Kachin, Karen and Burmese nurses, and an assortment of some 30 servants and refugees. They went first by motor transport into a jungle. Their path crossed elephant trails until they came to a chasm bridged only by a rope suspension which could carry nothing heavier than jeeps. (Belden had one.) General Stilwell ordered everyone to strip unnecessary paraphernalia so as to be able to walk. In the weeds a pile of elegant...