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Toward Victory. A great gap had been torn in the Jap blockade. Supplies, flowing up the Ledo-Burma Road, were revitalizing Chungking's ragged riflemen. Not even the Jap capture of Laohokow and its U.S. air base (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) could hide the overall fact that China's armed strength was increasing...
Objective, Burma! (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull; TIME...
Your Cinema editor reported Errol Flynn a major in Objective, Burma! (TIME, Feb. 26). I'm pretty sure swashbuckling Flynn was only a captain. Unless, of course, he was promoted after...
Perhaps the loneliness of the jungle explained it, perhaps it was merely because there was a great variety of livestock available; whatever the reason, the British Fourteenth Army in Burma was the world's best at collecting pets. It was a tradition. The late Major General Orde C. Wingate had taken a cow buffalo along on his raids, once restored its health with precious brandy. Brigadier "Mad Mike" Calvert's favorite was an elephant named Flossie. In Arakan an officer keeps a bear...
Objective, Burma! (ErrolFlynn, Henry Hull; TIME...