Word: myitkyina
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...hundreds. But the Chinese would still need supplies from the west. To open a supply route, their tattered Chinese divisions fought harder last week up & down the heartbreaking, jungle-clad ridges of the Salween River front, aiming to join with General Stilwell's army pushing east from Myitkyina...
...Vinegar Joe" Stilwell the capture of Myitkyina was his second star in a week. Few days before Myitkyina fell, President Roosevelt nominated the 61-year-old veteran to be a full general. When the Senate confirms it, Stilwell will join a rank held by only five other Americans in active service...
...Myitkyina had been taken at last, but for General Joseph Stilwell there was taste of bitter tea in the victory. Among the troops taking part were only a token few of Brigadier General Frank Merrill's famed Marauders, organized especially for the north Burma campaign. The cold fact was that Merrill's Marauders had "blown...
When the situation around Myitkyina grew serious late in May, General Stilwell in desperation ordered that all able-bodied men be sent to the front. Medical officers interpreted the order too strictly, sent back to action many a Marauder who was really ill but not actually bedridden...
...combat unit. Now that the story was out, Army men wondered what would be done. The answer was: very little. General Merrill, ill for months, had already been replaced by Brigadier General Theodore F. Wessels who (with a few original Marauders) was leading a Chinese outfit at Myitkyina. For most of the original Marauders there were only the Army's red bathrobes, gloomy hospital talk, rear-base doldrums. Only official action taken was, in a way, a fulfilment of the recruiting promise: the Marauders were recommended for favored positions on the Army's headed-for-home lists...