Word: sliney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friend or Foe? American tanks from the west clanked into Mongyu at 11:30. The first American, Brigadier General George W. Sliney, hiked in on foot with a platoon of Chinese troops from the Burma side. The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them. Sliney threw himself in front of the Bren gun. They were Chinese from the other side of the block and they cheered and yelled as the American walked...