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Victory in Europe did not end the demand for ambulance drivers, the American Field Service, has announced. AFS volunteers are still needed for the Burma front, yet fewer Harvard men have been going in recently than men from Yale, Princeton, or Dartmouth...
...Show. To take Burma's capital Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten had mounted his biggest combined operation of the Pacific war. To the north of the city Lieut. General Sir William J. Slim's land forces awaited the go signal. British East Indies Fleet units, standing in to the Gulf of Martaban, shelled the flatlands south of Rangoon. Paratroops floated down south of Rangoon to smooth the way for amphibious forces. Far to the southwest, in the Bay of Bengal, aircraft carriers and battleships carried out strikes on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to prevent interference with...
When the curtain was lifted on Rangoon there were surprisingly few Japs around. Some 30,000 of the enemy remained in Burma, but many of them were cut off by the sea to the west, their escape routes to Thailand sealed. If the almost bloodless taking of Rangoon was an anticlimax to the bloody battles that had been fought for Mandalay and the roads southward, the strategic results were even more satisfactory than had been hoped...
...Future. The badly beaten Japs had left Rangoon's fine port unblocked and virtually undamaged. Soon Allied seaborne supplies for China could be transferred there to the rails that run to Lashio, as they were before the Japs took Burma. The slow, arduous truck haul over the Stilwell Road from India to Lashio might soon be merely a secondary supply service...
Rangoon-in Burmese its name means "the end of the war"*-represented the virtual end of the Burma campaign and a good beginning toward greater victories...