Word: toungoo
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...Japanese divisions, about 90,000 men, were said to be packed into Burma, more than enough to garrison the country, perhaps the beginnings of enough to attack India. The R.A.F. and U.S. airmen in India bombed Mandalay, Mingaladon, Toungoo, the Jap positions on the India-Burma border...
...Water supply was insufficient in the hot wastelands north of Prome and Toungoo and, with the Japs constantly cutting our rear, we often were cut off from watering holes...
...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 had no choice but to abandon the town. Across brushlands and rice paddies, they rushed from the sheltering trees and houses of Toungoo. Jap artillery fired pointblank. The Chinese scattered, broke through to the Sittang River, waded and swam it, under constant fire. They took their losses, but they won through to the main Chinese forces in the north. For every dead Chinese on the fields and hills around Toungoo, they left four dead Japs...
Advance on India. Toungoo was one of the two points in central Burma where Allied troops had taken a stand against the Japs advancing from the conquered south. The other was Prome, where General H. R. L. G. Alexander had, to some extent, refitted his battered British Imperials after their retreat from Rangoon. Last week they had to retreat again. They abandoned Prome, but they were still between the Japs and the valuable oilfields of Burma's Irrawaddy Valley...