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...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical...
Even if the Japanese should push westward only to Kweiyang, 300 miles from Paoching, they would sever the main highways by which the Chinese and their allies had hoped to move war supplies into China from the new Ledo-Burma Road, through Kunming to Chungking. Across the plateau to the highways wove countless secondary roads and paths, along which the Japs had learned to route their advance...
...strong as it was on Dec. 7, 1941 - perhaps stronger. Its 4,000,000 soldiers are organized in 70 combat divisions of about 20,000 men each, plus almost twice as many reserves and service troops. The 70 divisions are distributed: eight in the home islands; ten in Burma, Thailand, Indo-China and Malaya; 20 in the Philip pines, the Netherlands Indies and Pacific islands; 32 in China and Manchuria. In southeast Asia the Japs also have 70,000 quisling troops - Burmese, Malays, Thais and a few Indians. Militarily these are an unknown quantity...
...trickle of supplies to China, flown over the Hump from India by the U.S. Army Air Transport Command, has grown to a rill: almost 25,000 tons a month, as compared with barely half that in the good old days of the bad old Burma Road. In addition, the Fourteenth and Twentieth carry in much of their own gasoline. Of the A.T.C.'s tonnage, 25 to 40% goes to Chinese ground troops, under the personal allocation and supervision of General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell. This comprises 75-and 105-mm. guns, trucks, jeeps, small arms and ammunition...
Since TIME and LIFE Correspondent Jack Belden (Retreat with Stilwell) saw his first battle outside Peiping in 1937, he has reported war in Burma, India, North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Italy, been wounded at Salerno, recovered to get in the thick of the current European invasion. Still Time to Die is mostly expert, on-the-spot description of the battles he has seen. But it rises a notch above other able war reporting through Correspondent Belden's provocative summing up of what he has learned in his seven war-filled years. Some of the prime lessons...