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...island as menacingly close to Japan's heart as Bermuda is to New York. The war-worn Chinese rallied to take back a section of the hard-won Canton-Hankow railway line. A jungle-trekking British force popped up to menace the conquered oil-field district of Burma. There were more fires than fire brigades, around the Empire; and the alarm bells still clanged...
Objective, Burma! (Warners) is a practically book-length (2 hr. 22 min.) tribute to the U.S. paratroops. At the rate Errol Flynn & Co. knock off the Japanese, it may make you wonder why there is any good reason for the war to outlast next weekend. On the other hand, you may be too excited to bother with such thoughts...
Some three dozen paratroopers, led by Major Flynn, are dropped in the jungle to find an enemy radar station whose destruction will aid the airborne reinvasion of Burma. They succeed almost too glibly, liquidating Japs so thoroughly that not one survives to shoot back, or even squirm. After blowing up the station, they get to a flight strip in plenty of time to be picked up by U.S. transports. But when a Jap force keeps the transports from landing, their anabasis begins. They are now faced with a march through some 150 miles of steep-slanted, many-rivered jungle, slithering...
...central Burma village a character straight out of Kipling stepped up to meet the advancing troops. Regimental Sergeant Major Watts, Retired, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, now deaf, blind and 88 years old, reported. He had spent 55 years in the British Army, 13 years in the Burma police, learned ''what the ten-year soldier tells: 'If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else...
...York and Lanes-and the Scots and Welsh Border regiments marveled at this gaffer of the old Army, admired him in the usual unprintable phrases, gave him a cheer. They had fought their way through mountain jungles; tough fighting lay ahead before the last Jap would be driven from Burma. But they were in lush valleys...