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...hills and plains of central China, in the monsoon-soaked jungle of Burma, in the rain forests of Borneo, New Guinea, New Britain and Bougainville, Allied armies fought on, spurred by hope that the bypassed, cut-off Japs would soon get the word and lay down their arms...
...British completed liberation of most of Burma...
...Japan was flown June 15, 1944, when 68 planes from Chengtu, deep in China, bombed the Yawata Steel Works on Kyushu. The communiqué said hopefully that results were "effective." Four planes were lost on this pioneering mission. A total of 49 missions was flown from China, India and Burma bases, but B-29 men knew from the start that the invasion of the Marianas (begun at Saipan, also June 15) was far more important for their purposes. For in China every bomb, every gallon of gasoline had to be flown over the Hump from India; airfields...
...Secretary of State for India and Burma, the Right Honorable Frederick W. Pethick-Lawrence, 73. Once a militant suffragist, Minister Pethick-Lawrence took his wife's name (Pethick), went to jail with her. Last week King George VI made him a baron. Minister of Health Bevan once referred to the new baron as "that crusty old Tory who still sticks in the Labor Party...
Canadians who fought under him knew Irish-born Field Marshal Alexander as a good soldier, a crack commander and a "simple, sensible type of fellow" to boot. He had been at Dunkirk, had commanded the British retreat in Burma, and the victorious campaigns in North Africa, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy...