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Brought into a convalescent ward behind the Assam-Burma front, a surly, arrogant young Scots sergeant named Lachlen (Richard Basehart) does not know he has only a few weeks to live. His ward mates and the ward nurse (Anne Burr) do, and they put up with his rudeness and rebuffs until they win him over. But when Lachlen discovers that he is doomed, he decides that all this friendliness was merely pity, and with proud fury he again rejects his fellowmen...
...Shantung Province, 800 miles northeast of Chungking. In two assaults, 67 Jap fighters and bombers were smashed. The outfit which gave the enemy this stinging surprise was the "Yellow Scorpions" squadron, named for the gaudy spinners on the planes' noses. The squadron had first distinguished itself in Burma; when it was transferred to China, the Japs had hailed the move as an opportunity for revenge. Now the enemy had more revenge...
...Japanese in northern and western Burma were in full retreat last week. Only at Akyab, principal port on the west coast, and around Wanting, on the old Burma Road, were Allied troops in close contact with the retiring foe. To the British, who had been driving on Akyab for two dreary years, the disease-ridden town at the mouth of the Arakan River seemed like something at the end of a rainbow. Now they were within sight of it, and in position to contain...
...central sectors progress was uniform. British, Chinese and U.S. columns pushed south on three main routes toward Mandalay and Lashio. To the east, fighting swirled around the alternate north branch of the Burma Road. Jap suicide garrisons were entrenched in Namhkam and Wanting. But Namhkam was bypassed as a column of American-trained, U.S.-equipped Chinese troops crossed the Burma border into Yünnan. Other Chinese, from the opposite direction, were assaulting Wanting, and when this fell, the Ledo-Burma route for a road and pipeline to nourish the armies of China would be opened...
...Leyte landing: "The strategic result of capturing the Philippines will be decisive. . . . The Dutch East Indies . . . Borneo, Malaya and Burma will be severed from Japan proper. . . . To the north, either flank will be vulnerable and can be rolled up at will." Two months ago a communiqué claimed: "The end of the Leyte-Samar campaign is in sight...