Word: mogaung
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After reading the issue of TIME (Nov. 20) in which you tell of the jeep-operated Myitkyina Mogaung railroad, I thought you would be interested in seeing a ticket on that important transportation line...
This ticket was given me by Major Shuttleworth, one of General Wingate's officers and a Mogaung conqueror, on our return trip from Myitkyina the day after the capture of the railroad...
...TIME, Nov. 13), heard with pleasure that his name was still active there. In a campaign he had planned, his son, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., infantryman, West Pointer ('33), received the Legion of Merit for "meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services" in the Hukawng and Mogaung Valleys. In command of a Mars Task Force unit spearheading the advance on Mandalay was his son-in-law, Colonel Ernest F. Easterbrook, infantryman, West Pointer...
...small clouds of fabulously colored butterflies, the train passed what the bombs had left of a small white church, a row of Chinese graves, a smashed Jap cannon, then rolled on over swamp-spanning bridges to a line of deserted dugouts, a small American cemetery, at last to the Mogaung terminal...
...born of a desperate need three months ago and built largely from wreckage. Hemmed in by Japs, isolated by monsoon-swept roads, lacking an airfield, Allied soldiers at Mogaung had to make the railroad work-or starve. The rail line had been cut and was under enemy fire at some points; tracks were ripped up and bridges torn down. But there were boxcars, flatcars, and all other essentials except engines, which the Japs were using for machine-gun nests. Simply by switching wheels, G.I. railroadmen created the jeep locomotive and started to roll...