Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Moscow: in four weeks of March, Zhukov's army alone killed 183,000 men, captured 25,000, seized or destroyed 2,100 tanks, 4,600 guns, 54,000 trucks. Last week, at two railway junctions, Red units captured 1,600 railroad cars loaded with food, ammunition, loot, wounded Germans...
...this drive was perfectly plain. In fact, Tokyo announced it to the world itself. Over in China, said Tokyo, Claire Chennault was readying an air attack on the mainland of Japan. It could be stopped only by cutting the railroad. Whatever the Jap's estimate of Chennault's intentions was worth, his estimate of the importance of the Bengal-Assam railway was exaggerated...
...Japs should succeed in what they were attempting, the only new route for the moment seemed to be the tortuous one up the Brahmaputra by boat, then by transshipment to a spur railroad line, and thence to the Assam airfields...
What most annoyed Lone-Dissenter Justice Owen Roberts was a Court which keeps changing its mind. Said he: Supreme Court decisions are beginning to look like "a restricted railroad ticket, good for this day and train only...
...only a short 50 miles behind Imphal runs the little narrow-gauge railroad which was built to connect the tea plantations of Assam with the outer world. The over burdened single track now carries all the supplies for General Stilwell's front, plus goods for delivery to northern Assam airfields, for transport over the Hump to China. If Kawabe cuts this railroad, he will have fixed Stilwell exactly as Wingate's Raiders have fixed the Japanese opposing Stilwell-cut them off from their bases...