Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese were all but washed up. There was no continuous front-there could be none across the forbidding north-south ridges. But between the ridges, four Allied armies were probing southward like the fingers of a hand; another, like an opposed thumb, was flexing southwestward from China's Yunnan Province. The enemy was fighting only rearguard actions. Obviously he was falling back upon his supply bases in central Burma...
Apparently Americans would also continue to train Chinese troops for the coming battles. In Yunnan province thousands of Chinese have already passed through bases like "Little Fort Benning," grown husky and active on good food, learned modern communications and tactics from U.S. instructors...
...reinforcements were steadily moving up the Yangtze River, reports from Hunan that a brigade of 200 light tanks was ready to go into action soon. The Chinese might be able to muster a slightly larger number of men-but incomparably less equipment. And the nearest Chinese reinforcements were in Yunnan, about 30 days' march distant...
Into the mile-high battle for Tengyueh (Tengchung) on the Burma-Yunnan border, went U.S. Tenth Air Force planes from India to help the Chinese in their stone-by-stone reconquest of the walled city. Near by, U.S. and Chinese engineers literally blew the top off Sungshan Mountain with three tons of TNT. The Japs manning the peak went with it. One more step toward reopening the Burma Road was taken...
...Szechwan alone the grain yield would be at least 250,000,000 piculs (600,000,000 bushels), or 40 to 50% above last year. Kansu, Honan, and Shensi had already harvested their biggest wheat crops in 15 years. Yunnan, too, expected a bumper crop. In the great metropolitan collection depots the Government's rat-proof bins bulged with grain piled in wicker baskets twice as high as a man's head. River junks and sampans had to be used for emergency grain storage...