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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...
From the East. Myitkyina was the easternmost end of the road to China. Already from Yunnan province another road was being freed to complete the route. Chinese forces who held that stretch had crossed the Salween River and last week were fighting for the road town of Tengyueh. With crude ladders they scaled the ancient walls built in Marco Polo's day, turned modern flamethrowers on the Japanese defenders. At week's end they had occupied the inner defenses. Between Tengyueh and Myitkyina there were no Japs...
When the road is done; it will link the Calcutta railhead of Ledo in India with China. Only then will Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and his Chinese allies coming from Yunnan have made their objective. The road will also complete a backbreaking, distasteful job for dambuilder Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick-now a highway builder and the boss of Pick's Pike...
They still had many months of fighting ahead. But when Stilwell and Pick meet the Yunnan Chinese, Pick's Pike will be finished...