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Word: wynford (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Meiktila gone, Mandalay had lost military importance, but the Japs fought last week as though it were a Shinto shrine. In 130-degree heat, in swirls of white dust, dashing, diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) General Thomas Wynford Rees led his turbaned Punjabis into the city from the north. From the west came another Allied force. Mandalay's defenders were trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Burma Turnabout | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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