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Word: tengchung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the mile-high battle for Tengyueh (Tengchung) on the Burma-Yunnan border, went U.S. Tenth Air Force planes from India to help the Chinese in their stone-by-stone reconquest of the walled city. Near by, U.S. and Chinese engineers literally blew the top off Sungshan Mountain with three tons of TNT. The Japs manning the peak went with it. One more step toward reopening the Burma Road was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: When the Rains Go | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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