Word: salween
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shanghai, Joy! The war's orphans, the men from the gorges of the Salween and the mountain bivouacs of Central China, came to Shanghai, which greeted liberation as no city in the world had greeted...
Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan's forces made a 40-mile advance below surrounded Bhamo, threatened to cut in behind Jap troops retreating from the Salween and had a chance to clear the whole blocked sector of the Burma Road...
...Army. So could U.S. artillerymen who, by Jap account, were being flown to China by the hundreds. But the Chinese would still need supplies from the west. To open a supply route, their tattered Chinese divisions fought harder last week up & down the heartbreaking, jungle-clad ridges of the Salween River front, aiming to join with General Stilwell's army pushing east from Myitkyina...
From the East. Myitkyina was the easternmost end of the road to China. Already from Yunnan province another road was being freed to complete the route. Chinese forces who held that stretch had crossed the Salween River and last week were fighting for the road town of Tengyueh. With crude ladders they scaled the ancient walls built in Marco Polo's day, turned modern flamethrowers on the Japanese defenders. At week's end they had occupied the inner defenses. Between Tengyueh and Myitkyina there were no Japs...
...planes were needed against Jap shipping off the China coast; they were needed up north on the Yellow River, where the enemy was .trying to drive westward in Honan Province; they were needed down south on the Salween, where the Chinese were driving laboriously into Burma to join up with Stilwell's forces...