Word: rangoon
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...that Singapore has fallen, the loss of Rangoon would mean China cut off, and the ring for a return bout blasted into splinters. This man Nehru could, with the 425,000,000 Chinese that Chiang represents, hold sway over one-third of the population of the world. The natives of India, given their freedom, could defend themselves with the same phenomenal resistance which has been exhibited by the inspired populations of China and Russia-that same determination which was notably lacking in the peoples of, lulled Malaya...
...battle of Burma blazed along a 300-mile front. Japanese shock troops forced crossings of the Biliu River, but the British contended their defenses were holding against heavy assault--45 miles from the Rangoon-Lashio Railway, the last practicable Allied route into China...
Certainly Japanese land and air forces did not fail for lack of effort. Ninety miles east of Rangoon they established a jumping-off spot at the smoking, Kipling-sung city of Moulmein, fanned northward along Burma's longest and swiftest river, the Salween, for a frontal assault against the curving coastal Martaban-Pegu railroad that leads into the Burma Road, feed line for seaborne supplies from the U.S. But there the advance slowed, then virtually halted...
...Over Rangoon a protective covey of American-flown Tomahawks (P-40s) and British Hurricanes beat off incessant waves of day & night bombing attacks. Paced by John Van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk (25 Jap planes shot down), who cut short a week-old honeymoon last July to join the American Volunteer Group, the outnumbered U.S., British, Australian, Canadian and Indian pilots in Burma chalked up 122 enemy planes against only five losses for themselves...
...Rangoon was shaky, but Rangoon was holding. In the line, fighting side by side with defending troops, were fresh reinforcements of Chinese soldiers, who had marched 1,000 miles by foot into Burma (TIME, Feb. 2). Wise to the ways of Japanese warfare, they would be a bulwark in the great battle that must surely come...