Word: mingaladon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commander had tooled his airplane over Rangoon, and had seen no enemy activity. Warily, he peeped at the big Japanese airfield at Mingaladon. It was empty. So he landed. By foot and by cart, he made his way the twelve miles into Rangoon, there found a Union Jack flying over a jail where 1,400 British, U.S. and Indian war prisoners were quartered. The Japanese, who had occupied the big Burmese port since the fourth month of the Pacific war, had fled...
...Japanese divisions, about 90,000 men, were said to be packed into Burma, more than enough to garrison the country, perhaps the beginnings of enough to attack India. The R.A.F. and U.S. airmen in India bombed Mandalay, Mingaladon, Toungoo, the Jap positions on the India-Burma border...
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