Word: mogaung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the engineer wistfully to his passenger: "You oughta been along yesterday. Yesterday I had a steam locomotive." Today was different. Like most of the trains on the Myitkyina, Mogaung & Mandalay Railroad, this was one towed by two jeeps mounted on flanged wheels...
Last week he was working on the next 77-mile stretch to Mogaung, through rain that averaged an inch a day, had already washed out some of the 700 bridges on the twisting road. The road, he had promised, would stay open despite monsoon and high water...
...approaching newly conquered territory, where the Jap had obligingly helped out by maintaining a surfaced road from Kamaing to Mogaung, there joining the railway and highway to Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch'-i-nah). From Myitkyina it could go two ways: through jungle track northeast to Lauh-kaung, south to Tengyueh, east to Burma Road; or it could go south from Mogaung to Bhamo, northeast to Tengyueh. The battle's course would dictate the choice...
Japanese troops, sucked westward to face Stilwell's main force, were cut off from behind by a block on the Myitkyina-Mogaung road...
...last week's end the orphaned Raiders had cut the Burma railway between Myitkyina and Katha, controlled the Irrawaddy river in two places, cutting off the Japs who oppose General Stilwell's advance down the Mogaung Valley from their bases...