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...Whose able commander Lieut. General Sir Oliver W. H. Leese was ordered to Burma last week and replaced by Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery, once General Alexander's chief of staff in North Africa...
First raid was one of the shortest the big planes ever undertook: 500 or 600 miles to Rangoon, Burma's No. 1 city, which fell to the Japs in March...
China's Soldier. In March 1942, General Stilwell went back to China, plunged immediately into the hopeless task of holding Burma against the Japs. His famed retreat across Burma ("I say we took a hell of a beating") did not shake his faith in the Chinese soldier. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek supported Stilwell, at first. So did his great & good friend, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall...
...campaign to reopen a road to China through northern Burma, "Vinegar Joe," at 59, proved himself a crack field commander, a masterly tactician-and also a driving, red-tape-be-damned anti-diplomat. His men, Chinese and American, saw him frequently from their jungle foxholes. He jeeped across the tortuous terrain indefatigably, injected his high-octane personality into every advance...
From Chungking came censor-blurred reports of "Vinegar Joe's" further doings. There were reports of a new training plan for the Chinese Army. There were reports of more supplies to be sent into China over the Burma-Ledo road when it was finished. Backgrounding all the rumors were the delicate political situation in China, the conflict of Chinese and British interests in southeast Asia, and the pressure of Communists in and out of China. Army men, who knew about Chinese-speaking Joe Stilwell's blunt forthrightness, reflected that his job called for the diplomacy of a super...