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...ranks on the open flats before the city. But the Japs came on. From Moulmein they drove the outnumbered, outgunned British across the broad Salween River. There, behind the river barrier, the British took their stand between the Japanese and the prize they were fighting for: mastery of strategic Rangoon, of the Burma Road to China, of the invasion road to India...
...trying to machine-gun him, then recognized a comrade from his squadron, convoying him to earth. The young man and his parachute plopped into a rice field. A Burmese farmer spewed mouthfuls of water on his bloody forehead. Others fed him, sped him back to his airdrome at Rangoon. Said the young man from Georgia: "I got back so late the skipper didn't have me down on the next day's flying schedule. That's how you caught me loafing...
...American Volunteer Group in Burma and China did little loafing. At Rangoon, on the ocean entry to the Burma Road, at Kunming, on its inner terminus, at many an airdrome between, A.V.G.'s100-odd U.S. pilots brightened last week's dark record of war in the Pacific with great valor and victories. Outnumbered, their slender stock of early-type P-40s diminished by ground strafing, crashes and a few casualties in the air, they still went by threes and sevens and tens against much larger Jap fighter-bomber formations. Said a spectator in Rangoon: "It looked like...
...three purposes behind his drive. First he wanted Rangoon, unloading point for the supplies that go up the Burma Road to Chiang Kaishek. Second he wanted to dig in there against the day when he could lash out at India. Finally, he wanted to beat the British to the draw in their "must" offensive against the Japanese supply line to Malaya...
English-trained as a barrister, Sir Paw Tun went back to Burma via the U.S. 20 years ago, fell in love at first sight with an American blonde, married her. He and Lady Paw Tun live in a mansion opposite Rangoon's City Hall, have two sons and a daughter. Lady Paw Tun runs a kindergarten for Europeans and Burmese. Premier Paw Tun, who is expected to accommodate the British better than Axis-inclined Premier Saw, still wears a silk headpiece and skirt, Burmese-style, but is so westernized that he eats with a knife and fork rather than...