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...weary Chinese troops wrenched the last stubborn defender from the railhead village of Myitkyina. Thus fell the last Japanese stronghold in north Burma. Now Stilwell had only to hold off the Japs and bulldoze through 70 miles of jungle and mountain to complete his project for 1944-to reopen a road from India supply bases to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Stars for Stilwell | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...French. Our job is merely to help them cope with an emergency." He and his men, American and British, have worked on that principle ever since. Within two or three days, most of the essential services were at least in partial operation. Civil Affairs men had even helped to reopen a Cherbourg cinema, revive a local newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Common Sense in Normandy | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...centers of strong resistance were around the city post office, a naval arsenal, the seaplane base. Attacking troops, weary, grimy but intent on the kill, surrounded them and drove in for the final mop-up. As they closed the battle for Cherbourg engineers were moving in behind to help reopen the great Atlantic port to sea traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Drive to The Port | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...many months the Soviets had waited for their western allies to open a western front. Now that the Normandy beachhead was booming, the western allies waited for Russia to reopen the main eastern front. They did not have to wait long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Thunder in the East | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Government officials gloomily doubt that the nation can meet, he was bossing the St. John's first big log drive (45 million ft.) in five years. His goal was the whitewashed village of Keegan, Me. There the Van Buren Madawaska Lumber Corp. is preparing, with government assistance, to reopen the East's biggest sawmill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: Big Drive | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

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