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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: Another Paris | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Stars for Stilwell | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND,OPERATIONS: The Bitter Tea of General Joe | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND,OPERATIONS: The Bitter Tea of General Joe | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...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 General Merrill, ill for months, had already been replaced by Brigadier General Theodore F. Wessels who (with a few original Marauders) was leading a Chinese outfit at Myitkyina.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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND,OPERATIONS: The Bitter Tea of General Joe | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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