Word: railhead
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When the road is done; it will link the Calcutta railhead of Ledo in India with China. Only then will Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and his Chinese allies coming from Yunnan have made their objective. The road will also complete a backbreaking, distasteful job for dambuilder Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick-now a highway builder and the boss of Pick's Pike...
...that the Germans were on the offensive along a 155-mile front in the middle and upper Donets River regions, presumably near Izyum. Troops operating in the "area of Kharkov," Berlin said, had encircled the Soviet Third Tank Army. Other forces were said to have "stormed" Slavyansk, an important railhead north of Stalino, which the Russians had recaptured in mid-February. The Germans were evidently bent on holding the Donets salient as long as they could, regardless of what happened in north Russia...
...Captain Smith and his Commandos came telegrams giving each of them two days to return from furlough. When they met at the railhead "they were still congruous with civilian notions of tenderness . . . One could easily envisage the disentanglement of a sergeant's gear from feminine articles, helmet recovered from a web of stockings, rifle extracted from a flimsy slip." A few days of special training in friendly, sheltered coves, and then "the filing into craft by twilight, each man in his proper place and fighting order...
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...
Closing upon Casablanca and its airdromes, the U.S. forces were fighting for Vichy's second-best Atlantic naval anchorage (the best: Dakar), a sizable segment of Vichy's Navy, Vichy Africa's principal Atlantic railhead and a modern city (pop. 257,000) which was the pride of colonial France. After the capture of the three key cities-Casablanca, Oran and Algiers-the rest of French North Africa might well be the Allies' for the taking...