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...leathery, hard-bitten General Joseph W. Stilwell went the final practical proof of what the textbooks had told him 40 years before at West Point: there is more to war than just fighting. Last week "Uncle Joe," hero of Burma and the U.S.'s No. 1 soldier in China, was summarily relieved and ordered home...
...mouthed paragraph. It gave no explanation of General Stilwell's unceremonious removal from his glamorous list of jobs as 1) Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; 2) Deputy to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Southeast Asia; 3) U.S. Commander of the China-Burma-India theater...
...Chungking. As a soldier, General Stilwell had reached a hero's height since the grim spring of 1942 when he retreated through Burma and marched over the mountains into India with his famous summary of an inglorious campaign: "We got a hell of a beating." Since then he had trained a new army, fought back across north Burma through the monsoon, had all but finished the opening of a new supply road to China across jungles and mountains...
...Burma theater, where more than a dozen British Empire divisions are now engaged, has been doomed to scant world attention. Nonetheless, Britons, Indians, West Africans have paid heavily in the inhuman jungles (battle casualties for the first six months of 1944: 40,000; disease casualties...
...Arnold, of the U.S. Army Air Forces, pinned the D.S.M. on the bemedaled chest of Colonel Philip Cochran, 34-year-old inspiration for "Flip Corkin" of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip. The citation: for crack performance in the first airborne invasion of Burma...