Word: monsoon
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Allied troops in north Burma and southeast China were only 26 miles apart across the savage mountains. They fought toward each other in wild, monsoon-sodden terrain (see map). But even if they succeeded in joining, it would be only a token. The real consideration in this remote. Godforsaken battleground is a road-and the road has to wait for clean-up in the rear, and until other terrain suitable for road-building is cleared by the fighters...
General Joseph Stilwell's shock columns were still at-not in-Myitkyina. With the prize almost within their grasp, they had stalled. One reason: the Japanese had quickly improvised a stout resistance. Another: torrential rains and monsoon winds had blunted the attack...
...Japanese base of Myitkyina would be the first step toward the climax of a daring, unorthodox military operation. Next step was to complete the all-weather Ledo supply road from India to China. It might not be done for several months, for at week's end the monsoon had begun. But for the first time it looked like more than a gleam in the eye of stubborn, brilliant Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell...
Almost on the eve of the monsoon the Chinese struck from the Salween. In Yunnan 20,000 picked troops and the Americans of Stilwell's Y (for Yunnan) force lunged from the Burma Road westward against Japanese lines. Their drive met strong Japanese resistance, was still 80 airline miles from Myitkyina...
...soon be using it, avoiding the 20,000-ft.-high "oxygen run" across the Hump and stepping up the deliveries to Major General Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and the Chinese armies. To this airfield, too, reinforcements for Stilwell can be fer ried even during the monsoon...