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Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan's forces made a 40-mile advance below surrounded Bhamo, threatened to cut in behind Jap troops retreating from the Salween and had a chance to clear the whole blocked sector of the Burma Road...
...west of Bhamo, British forces chased the enemy back toward Mandalay in a retreat whose scale suggested that the Japs may have decided to pull out of northwest Burma entirely. But the enemy troops facing General Sultan's men were fighting stubborn delaying actions...
Chungking sorely needed straws of hope to grasp. With dismaying speed the Japanese were surging toward Kweiyang, all-important rail terminus and highway junction linking China's capital to the southwest. If Kweiyang fell, the delivery end of the Burma Road would be cut, the Japs would be only 235 air miles from Chungking itself...
Dead-End Road. If Kweiyang were to go as nine other U.S. bases had gone, the Japs would be in a position to: 1) advance northward along the Burma Road toward Chungking itself; 2) turn southwest toward Kunming or northwest to Pichieh and cut the best alternate road over which U.S. supplies might move in quantity, once the Burma end of the Road was cleared (see below...
Major General Claire Chennault, hawk-eyed chief of the Fourteenth Air Force in China, publicly greeted Hollywoodians Jinx Falkenburg and Pat O'Brien, members of a U.S.O. troupe whose performance moved 20th Bomber Command enlisted men-hitherto highly critical of China-Burma-India theater performers- to present them with a commendatory scroll...