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...troops in a swift 85-mile dash from one bridgehead into Meiktila (70 miles south of Mandalay), to seize eight Jap airfields. There and on the way there the British killed 1,600 Japs. With one punch they had severed the enemy's land and water links from Rangoon to Mandalay, and had virtually cut off the main forces defending Burma. The next move was up to the Japs -if they could make...
Recently the onetime civilian railroaders who run the M.M. & M. set up a repair shop for twelve barely salvageable steam engines left behind by the Japs. After plugging 677 holes in the water tank of No. 1, they had it going in eight days. No. 6, hopefully named The Rangoon Limited, went to work last week. But in the absence of coal, the wood-burning engines are limited to short runs. The M.M. & M., which now extends southward beyond Mo-gaung, will have to depend on the jeep to pull it through eventually to Mandalay...
...each B-29 could carry perhaps ten tons of bombs, an unheard-of load for any bomber in the vast Pacific theater. All the B-29s returned, but three P-47s of the escort -the first the Superfortresses ever had-were lost to heavy antiaircraft fire at the target: Rangoon's railway yards...
First raid was one of the shortest the big planes ever undertook: 500 or 600 miles to Rangoon, Burma's No. 1 city, which fell to the Japs in March...
...Royal Navy is moving in any force into the western Pacific, the Japs will have to divert naval strength to protect their sea lanes to Rangoon and north Burma...