Word: assam
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...jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil. So, in spite of New Delhi assurances, the spring-legged little invaders seemed a greater threat every day to the Bengal-Assam railway...
...world itself. Over in China, said Tokyo, Claire Chennault was readying an air attack on the mainland of Japan. It could be stopped only by cutting the railroad. Whatever the Jap's estimate of Chennault's intentions was worth, his estimate of the importance of the Bengal-Assam railway was exaggerated...
...Railway and Chennault. Over that road, flow all the supplies that get into China from the outside world, including fuel for Claire Chennault's tiny but vastly effective Fourteenth Air Force. The supplies are unloaded at the Assam terminus, transshipped to aircraft and whisked over the Hump, the Allies' aerial makeshift for the lost Burma road...
...only a short 50 miles behind Imphal runs the little narrow-gauge railroad which was built to connect the tea plantations of Assam with the outer world. The over burdened single track now carries all the supplies for General Stilwell's front, plus goods for delivery to northern Assam airfields, for transport over the Hump to China. If Kawabe cuts this railroad, he will have fixed Stilwell exactly as Wingate's Raiders have fixed the Japanese opposing Stilwell-cut them off from their bases...
...puts the plates on the presses of the famous Hindustan Times (published by Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third son). As fast as copies come off the press Army transport planes rush them west to Karachi, south to Agra, east to Calcutta and on to our airfields in Assam. There some of the copies are piled into Army trucks bound for the new Ledo Road that American boys are building across Burma into China. Others are loaded into little Army liaison planes, flown over the jungles and dropped by parachute to servicemen farther out than even the road...