Word: toungoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombers roared over Toungoo. When the Chinese soldiers gazed into the sky, they saw only the red daub of the Japs' rising sun on the wings. Not since the battle for Toungoo began had the Chinese seen an Allied plane...
First into the native section of Toungoo, with its wooden houses, then into the neat streets where the stone houses and churches of the British stood, the Japs pressed the Chinese ever backward. There were some 20,000 Japanese; the weary young Chinese commander had only 8,000 men. The Japanese had plenty of tanks and artillery; the Chinese had no tanks, almost no artillery from Chiang Kai-shek's meager stocks in China. They had to fight with rifles, pistols, light machine guns. Sometimes the Chinese called out to the Japs: "Lao hsiang (old countryman...
Four for One. At a Chinese command post, north of besieged Toungoo, a U.S. jeep chattered to a stop. Out jumped Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, the U.S. officer who commands the Chinese in Burma...
...long black holder, incessantly chewed gum, exchanged orders and information in his fluent Chinese (the fruit of 13 years' service in China). When Jap bombers broke up his conferences, he calmly took cover and kept on chewing gum. He soon saw that the Japanese blocked the way to Toungoo, that relief of the town was impossible without air support. A Chinese field radio flashed an order to the commander in Toungoo; at an appointed place and hour, he was to lead his men in a break through the Japanese lines. General Stilwell would attack from the north, drawing...
...Chinese around Toungoo bore the brunt of the ground fighting, with no air support. The American Volunteer Group flyers and the R.A.F. could spare no planes to help them. Unmolested, heavy Jap air forces backed up the ground attack, bombed Toungoo six times in one day. The Jap sidestepped Toungoo to the west, then wheeled at right angles, took the airport north of the town and cut off the Chinese from the British. Surrounded on three sides, the Chinese fought for 60 desperate hours without rest. Then reinforcements arrived and they broke through to begin a retirement. According...