Word: myitkyina
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...jungles and mountains of north Burma an obscure and confusing military picture suddenly came clear for all to see. Like the arcs of a circle (see map), three different forces drew around the strategic village of Myitkyina (rhymes with hitch-in-ah) while a fourth came out from China...
Capture of the 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...
Also under Stilwell's command was the column of Katchin levies and Gurkhas moving down from the top of north Burma upon Myitkyina...
...still a third related operation, the Chindits* -specially trained British and Indian jungle fighters-were set down south of Myitkyina by U.S. gliders and planes in one of the most hair-raising airborne operations of the war (TIME, April 10). First under Major General Orde Charles Wingate, then, after his death, under Major General Walter D. A. Lentaigne, their job was to harass Japanese communications...
...jungles were impossible to Anglo-Saxon troops. In a great and winning gamble to drive the enemy from North Burma, he was beginning to win. Joe Stilwell was fighting on the "impossible" ground, taking supplies from the air, pushing doggedly toward the Jap's pivotal base at Myitkyina. Wingate's Raiders, Merrill's Marauders and Joe Stilwell's force of Chinese and Americans had shown there was no unsolvable mystery about Burma fighting...