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...Commander L. W. A. Bennington, commander of a submarine force (the "Porpoise Carrier") which kept Malta alive at the height of its blockade. In the Pacific, his submarine crept through the grey-green waters of the Bay of Bengal, past the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which screen the Singapore-Rangoon sea lanes, scouted the narrow (225 mi.) northern approaches of the Malacca Straits. He attacked and sank three large cargo vessels, sighted the cruiser and closed at full speed...
Last week U.S. unity seemed to have reached its top. It was announced that in November Chennault's Liberators had flown down across the Himalayas into India, teamed up with Tenth Air Force heavies and set out all together for two blistering so-plane raids on Rangoon...
...with Burmese, Malayan, Japanese, Chinese and-most popular of all-Russian, is being done in pretty much the same way with other tongues elsewhere: University of California (Thai, Annamese), Pennsylvania (Moroccan Arabic, Hausa, Fanti) Indiana (Turkish). Noise Guide. Charming, handsome Shwe Waing was a sailor; his home port was Rangoon, where once a soothsayer said he would become a teacher. Last spring Yale picked him off Ellis Island. Technically Shwe Waing is no teacher but a guide through the jungle of Burmese vocables. Every morning for an hour he produces them as ordered by Yale's William S. Cornyn...
...steamy Southeast Asia theater began to pop with activity. Planes of the Tenth U.S. Army Air Force and the R.A.F in India intensified their harassment of the Burma coast, of Jap shipping around Rangoon, of Jap supply routes near Mandalay and along the Irrawaddy River. Allied-trained and equipped Chinese troops, based in India, skirmished with Jap troops along the North Burma frontier, forced their retreat and destroyed their lines of communication. Reports came of British submarine operations as far south as the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula...
...Seagrave slept without a mosquito net. He has not been free of malaria since. When the bombing of Rangoon began and the American women and children were ordered out of Burma, Mrs. Seagrave reluctantly agreed to go (she had malaria...