Word: lashio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Future. The badly beaten Japs had left Rangoon's fine port unblocked and virtually undamaged. Soon Allied seaborne supplies for China could be transferred there to the rails that run to Lashio, as they were before the Japs took Burma. The slow, arduous truck haul over the Stilwell Road from India to Lashio might soon be merely a secondary supply service...
More trouble for the Japs developed elsewhere. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan's American-trained Chinese troops burst into Lashio, were in position to cut the Japs' routes of retreat...
...road to China was again open. The land blockade of China was pierced; now there was once more an overland route from India (see map). In the northern Burma Theater, Wanting finally fell and 10,000 ragged Japanese were driven back down the road to Lashio. Soldiers from China pushed on to join hands with soldiers from India...
...central sectors progress was uniform. British, Chinese and U.S. columns pushed south on three main routes toward Mandalay and Lashio. To the east, fighting swirled around the alternate north branch of the Burma Road. Jap suicide garrisons were entrenched in Namhkam and Wanting. But Namhkam was bypassed as a column of American-trained, U.S.-equipped Chinese troops crossed the Burma border into Yünnan. Other Chinese, from the opposite direction, were assaulting Wanting, and when this fell, the Ledo-Burma route for a road and pipeline to nourish the armies of China would be opened...
...world." He celebrated with a farewell bombing, climbed through the clouds reciting poetry in time with the engine. "To the verses of 'Gunga Din' I dropped my first bomb ... on the docks of Homalin. ... I finished my ammunition by strafing the main street of [Lashio] . . . saw two plate-glass windows spatter . . . like artificial snow from a Christmas tree, and I laughed hysterically as two figures ran from a pagoda. . . . I landed back home tired and happy...