Word: monsoon
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...dripping hand of the monsoon lay heavy on northern India and Burma, but the U.S. Ferrying Command flew on, up to Kunming, to Chungking, to many another secret China base...
...south. But the Jap had taken the last of three fine airfields prepared by the Chinese in Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces against the day when the Americans would come with bombers. Now in Chungking, China's leaders looked to Burma and the clammy cloud of the monsoon...
...seen such incredible, sloshing weather. No longer did they sound the old pilots' wheeze, that even the crows were walking. The new one was that the fish were drowning. Near one Ferrying Command base the skies bucket down 500 inches of rain in the five months of the monsoon (average New York City annual rainfall, 43 in.), and up to now the rainmaker was on schedule...
...many of its roads will be bogs. But the best roads will still be usable, for bringing up supplies to the troops in the north. So will the Rangoon-Mandalay railroad; so will the rivers, except when they are flooded. In the north, where the fighting is headed, the monsoon will not halt combat. If the monsoon has any real military effect, it will be in the Bay of Bengal. In monsoon time the Bay and its air are stormy and perilous...
Desdiv (destroyer division) 59 was cruising south of Celebes when it got word to head for Macassar Strait. It quickly found out why. It was to blast the convoy at Balikpapan, peppered that day by Dutch bombers. The monsoon was kicking up a rough sea when Talbot's division set out, at 25 knots...