Word: yenangyaung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's half-forgotten wars moved on in southern Burma. The advancing British Fourteenth Army neared Rangoon. The oil towns of Yenangyaung and Magwe fell; so did Toungoo. The foe seemed weak and confused: a single Japanese sentry stepped out to stop a British tank and was run over...
...TIME & LIFE News Bureau already on hand at General Stilwell's mission-house headquarters-Correspondent Clare Boothe and Photographer George Rodger-so he decided to keep on going, borrowed a jeep and a Tommy gun and jolted his way south into the bloody Jap-trap at Yenangyaung. (It's a habit with him; he's been in the thick of the fighting of almost every critical campaign since China was invaded...
When Maymyo went the way of Yenangyaung, Belden and a British doctor were last to leave-fired the scout-cars, burned the official documents, finally lit out after the General with a tin of cheese and no water at all. He was with Uncle Joe's polyglot army of 400 all through the desperate 140-mile trek through the almost trackless jungle and over the head-hunter-infested mountains into India. He tended the wounded, chorused Christian hymns and American jazz with the Burmese nurses to keep up morale, escaped getting dysentery but lost so much weight the rings...
What Is Left? Southern Burma is gone. The oilfields around Yenangyaung are gone. The coast whence the Japs can move across the Bay of Bengal to India is largely gone. But the Allies still have something to fight for in Burma...
...oilfield at Yenangyaung, chief of the Burmese wells, which could produce 7,979,000 barrels a year, had to be blasted and wrecked by the retreating British, is now a ruin, useless to friend and foe alike. Gone is the chief and nearest supply of oil for China. Gone, apparently, was any hope of holding a line in Burma until the summer rains come to help the defenders...
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