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Army engineer detachments, 65% of them Negro troops, could stand by the Ledo-Burma Road and proudly watch the supply trucks roll up to China. Through two rain-lashed monsoon seasons they had labored, helped string an all-weather pavement over 1,044 miles of mountain jungle, helped build some 600 bridges. Now they could add up the cost: for every mile, an estimated $1,000,000 and a U.S. soldier's life...
...more than a year the Allies had hacked through the Burma jungles, around the swamps, over the roadless mountains. There were innumerable difficulties. The Japanese could employ small forces in the constricted battle areas to hold back larger forces. For most of the year the enemy had held almost all the all-season roads...
Last week the results of long-range Allied strategy burst into full bloom. The little Allied drives, inching through meaningless territory, had turned into a coordinated, full-sized offensive. 'Its main plan: to cut up the Jap forces (some 50,000 men) in north-central Burma; to drive southward...
...Burma campaign had come a long way. There was still a long way to go, but the turnabout of war's fortunes appeared to be only beginning...
Objective, Burma! (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull; TIME...