Word: lashio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Battle of Java, Pilot Grant Mahoney of the U.S. Army Air Forces has been sweating out a fifth aerial victory, which would make him an ace (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week Grant Mahoney, by now a major, was still a four-plane man. But south of Lashio, Burma, he riddled and destroyed four more Jap railroad engines, became a locomotive...
...scarce in China, freight planes have to carry with them a round trip supply, which necessarily cuts down on their pay load. Until Burma is recaptured, no real amount can be flown in," he revealed. "Once Burma is retaken, we will resume work on the railroad from Lashio north into China. This will take the place of the Burma road which had never been satisfactory...
General Chennault's Air Task Force, based in China's Yünnan Province, worked hard all week. Having won control of the air over Yünnanyi, most advanced Jap base inside southwest China, the flyers hit Lashio four times to try to jam the railhead through which supplies flow to the Japs' Salween front. For the first time they jumped on Japanese convoys on the Burma Road in broad daylight, hitting oil dumps in the junction town of Mingmao twice and catching trucks dispersed under trees. They blew up a railroad bridge south of Mandalay...
...behind us when we crossed the Chindwin, but we have had no news of them since then. We have reason to believe that the greater portion of the Chinese Army, except the unit left in the hills of the Shan States at the time of the Jap drive toward Lashio, are safe...
...China's lifeline to the fighting wealth of her allies. Now he charged with terrifying speed into the flank of her ragged fighters, defying analysis of his advance by the dazzling multiplicity of his spearheads. The Jap flung his main force in a curiously variegated pattern. Above Lashio, some 100 miles, he branched into two forks, sent one column north to Myitkyina, where he established an air base. Another column swung northeast up the Burma Road...