Word: salween
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reports from Chungking indicated that the Japs took the threats seriously: fresh troops moved into the Arakan district on the Bay of Bengal; supplies poured into the Salween front on the Burma-China border...
...advances on fronts scattered from northern Kiangsu to the Salween River on the Burma border might be the prelude to the final campaign to knock exhausted China out of the war. Indeed a Tokyo broadcast threatened just that...
...China's Yünnan Province, worked hard all week. Having won control of the air over Yünnanyi, most advanced Jap base inside southwest China, the flyers hit Lashio four times to try to jam the railhead through which supplies flow to the Japs' Salween front. For the first time they jumped on Japanese convoys on the Burma Road in broad daylight, hitting oil dumps in the junction town of Mingmao twice and catching trucks dispersed under trees. They blew up a railroad bridge south of Mandalay...
...crossed the Mekong and the Salween en route to the Japanese lines with lights out, our formation tight, the interlocking ships black against the rising moon behind them. Tengyueh lay absolutely still within the rectangular walls of its valley, with not a glimmer of light anywhere. But the brilliance of the moon traced the outlines of the walls and the main streets in clear, sharp shadows...
...Headed for Home. In a few minutes we were almost directly over the Salween gorge. As we crossed, Stout opened for the last time on the west bank of the river, spraying the hillside with fire to let the Chinese troops on the east bank know that their allies up above were helping...