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...Vinegar Joe" Stilwell the capture of Myitkyina was his second star in a week. Few days before Myitkyina fell, President Roosevelt nominated the 61-year-old veteran to be a full general. When the Senate confirms it, Stilwell will join a rank held by only five other Americans in active service...
Pacific, with a gourmet's enthusiastic attention to detail, described a new dish called "millionaires' salad," - a culinary triumph consisting solely of palm hearts soaked in vinegar...
...Arcs. Four months ago "Vinegar Joe" started out from Ledo in India on the first lap of the campaign that few thought would succeed. He had about two divisions of American-trained Chinese and a group of American and Chinese guerrilla fighters led by Brigadier General Frank Merrill. As Stilwell fought his way southeast through rugged country and equally rugged Japanese, engineers followed close behind, building a macadam highway...
Mataguchi was commander of the Japanese legation guard at Peiping when Stilwell was U.S. military attache there. Joe Stilwell pressed hard on him now, hoped he would not slip out. Even if he did, Vinegar Joe had scored a real victory...
...course of that vital but perilous job, ''Vinegar Joe" had turned one of the great Allied tricks of the war. He had shown the hollowness of the carefully nurtured doctrine that Burma's mountains and jungles were impossible to Anglo-Saxon troops. In a great and winning gamble to drive the enemy from North Burma, he was beginning to win. Joe Stilwell was fighting on the "impossible" ground, taking supplies from the air, pushing doggedly toward the Jap's pivotal base at Myitkyina. Wingate's Raiders, Merrill's Marauders and Joe Stilwell...