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...Bridgehead Lost. To China, the Jap blow was serious. Six hundred miles southwest of Chungking, the enemy moved from northern Burma into Yünnan. His columns struck at a pocket of Chinese troops who for a year and a half have held, against attack and malaria, a 13-mile bridgehead including two ferry crossings, on the Salween River's west bank...
General Chennault's Air Task Force, based in China's Yünnan Province, worked hard all week. Having won control of the air over Yünnanyi, most advanced Jap base inside southwest China, the flyers hit Lashio four times to try to jam the railhead through which supplies flow to the Japs' Salween front. For the first time they jumped on Japanese convoys on the Burma Road in broad daylight, hitting oil dumps in the junction town of Mingmao twice and catching trucks dispersed under trees. They blew up a railroad bridge south of Mandalay...
...gorge of the Wu-ti Ho the Japanese began to move. The rains had ended in Burma and Yünnan Province; the steamy, pestilential countryside was drying out. The Japs appeared to be launching their long-expected attack, creeping toward China's back door...
...bottomless river) is the Salween, which curls for 200 miles through the mountains of Yünnan. Along its west bank the Japanese had nurtured themselves, gathering their strength. Near Tengyueh they struck. Three columns, altogether some 6,000 veteran troops, swung north and east with the apparent intention of outflanking Chinese troops scattered along the Burma Road...
...Japanese should have known better. In their haste they left behind them the supposedly derelict Chinese army commanded by Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell; in their confidence they hurried into Yünnan only 5,000 strong. At week's end "Uncle Joe's" men came to life and, with a fury that harked back to the Chinese furies at Changsha and Taierchwang, rolled up the Japanese rear. In Yunnan a trap snapped on the Japanese...