Word: shweli
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...route goes through jungle for the first two days down to the Shweli. Little by little, the jungle opens, gives way to rice paddies and Shan villages...
...made Bhamo the first day, rolled down into the green folds of the Shweli on the afternoon of the second and then were strung up at Namhkam three days. The Japanese were 14 miles up the road and the war was still going...
...soldiers were laughing, chattering and shouting "Ting hao!" ("Good!") to everyone. The blockade had been broken; they had done it. Some of them were sitting happily on the last Jap machine-gun emplacements directly in the fork of the road, where the dirt track of the Shweli Valley spilled on the black asphalt surface of the main Burma highway itself. A little distance off, Chinese soldiers stood gaping with peasant eyes at the monstrous steel hides of the American tanks...
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