Word: walawbum
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Once, at Walawbum, when a Marauder unit was confronted by an overwhelming enemy force, the mules set up such a clamor that the Japs thought they must be outnumbered and withdrew...
During the first week of the new attack General Stilwell's troops did well. Total Japanese killed in the Walawbum-Maingkwan area were estimated at 2,000-800 by General Merrill's marauding infantrymen, 700 by the Chinese 22nd and 38th divisions, 500 by Chinese-manned tanks under Colonel Rothwell H. Brown. Total Japanese dead in the Hukawng Valley by week...
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