Word: salween
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost on the eve of the monsoon the Chinese struck from the Salween. In Yunnan 20,000 picked troops and the Americans of Stilwell's Y (for Yunnan) force lunged from the Burma Road westward against Japanese lines. Their drive met strong Japanese resistance, was still 80 airline miles from Myitkyina...
...south, another Chinese army, in a surprise move, crossed the milewide, emerald-green Salween on a 130-mile front and lunged west this week toward General Joseph Stilwell's India-based troops, now slowly advancing across north Burma...
...chiefly in the vast pocket of Central China south of the Yangtze, hedged in on the north and south by the two great Jap bases at Hankow and Canton. Its fighters and bombers provide an air umbrella of limited scope when the Jap in Central China and along the Salween front of western Yunnan stabs at the tough, resilient Chinese lines. But the Fourteenth has a consolation of sorts: its men know that they are contributing to a much greater show. Every ship sunk and every plane shot down by Chennault's men lessens the Jap potential in more...
...serious. Six hundred miles southwest of Chungking, the enemy moved from northern Burma into Yünnan. His columns struck at a pocket of Chinese troops who for a year and a half have held, against attack and malaria, a 13-mile bridgehead including two ferry crossings, on the Salween River's west bank...
...could seize the ferry slips on the Salween's west bank, he would achieve a substantial success. For the disputed bridgehead could play a key role in an Allied push into northern Burma...