Word: meiktila
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...battle for central Burma was won. Lieut. General Sir William Slim's British and Indian troops had a notable victory. Their Mandalay-Meiktila campaign (TIME, March 19) had broken seven Japanese divisions in what was, by official description, "a merry slaughter." Last week the British Fourteenth Army moved ahead for a swift cleanup of all Burma...
...phase was on: the campaign to capture Rangoon. This week General Slim's men were within 220 miles of that final goal. In twelve days they had pierced 70 miles south of Meiktila along the Mandalay-Rangoon railroad, and had overrun the Chauk oil fields, the Japs' biggest fuel source in Burma. The slaughter continued in a series of long thrusts and ambuscades; in the dozen days more than 3,500 Japs were killed...
...Mandalay. The enemy rushed armor to meet those threats. Then, in daring and unorthodox thrusts, Lieut. General Sir William J. Slim got forces across the Irrawaddy river 80 miles south of Mandalay. With Jap strength stalled in the north, General Slim's tanks dashed 85 miles to Meiktila. In that area, in a five-day battle, his Britons and Gurkhas captured eight airfields and severed rail and road lines from Rangoon (TIME, March...
...With Meiktila gone, Mandalay had lost military importance, but the Japs fought last week as though it were a Shinto shrine. In 130-degree heat, in swirls of white dust, dashing, diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) General Thomas Wynford Rees led his turbaned Punjabis into the city from the north. From the west came another Allied force. Mandalay's defenders were trapped...
...Meiktila British and U.S. airmen quickly put the airfields to their own uses. Tanks ranged over good roads to prevent reinforcements coming up from Rangoon. At Akyab, ruined as a port when the Japs fled nine weeks ago, Allied ships were unloading...