Word: maingkwan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the first week of the new attack General Stilwell's troops did well. Total Japanese killed in the Walawbum-Maingkwan area were estimated at 2,000-800 by General Merrill's marauding infantrymen, 700 by the Chinese 22nd and 38th divisions, 500 by Chinese-manned tanks under Colonel Rothwell H. Brown. Total Japanese dead in the Hukawng Valley by week...
...Anyone who still doubts the fighting ability of the Chinese troops (now in their first truly offensive battle of the war) did not see them at Maingkwan. . . . Chinese artillery and mortars pounded the center of the Japs' positions...
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...
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