Word: walawbum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed to care little for this world. The mission assigned them sounded simple. While General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Chinese divisions held the Japanese in position, the Marauders were to slice around end in long flanking attacks and set up roadblocks in the rear. The technique worked at Walawbum and Shaduzup; at Myitkyina it ended in disaster for the 5307th...
Flitting and stabbing day and night, sometimes fighting as long as 36 hours without food or water, crawling on hands and knees up sheer mountains, the end-running Marauders met the Japanese in obscure clearings with names like Walawbum, Shaduzup, Inkangahtawng, Miangkwan. This was the primitive Burma where tribesmen had often never seen a white mana harshly foreboding land of thunderous rivers and almost impassable jungles, where leeches clung to a man and drained his blood while stinking rot filled his soggy boots, where it rained 160 inches a year and nearly every Marauder shook with malarial fever...
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