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Into Our Hands. The British Fourteenth Army had had orders to engage the main enemy strength in western Burma. (It did not attack, and Lord Louis did not say why.) The Japs "fortunately played into our hands," he said, by launching the invasion of Manipur. That cost the enemy 22,000 dead. This week the British were well over the border into Burma, the disease-ridden Japs in headlong flight...
That "Hell of a Beating." In a sweet-&-sour mood last week, Stilwell recalled the "hell of a beating" taken by the Allies in Burma in 1942, and noted similarities in this campaign-"but in exact reverse." Equipment captured intact by the Japs two years ago was recaptured intact and again put to use by its original owners...
...hands trembled. Lieut. Preston Niland, missing since June 7 in the Normandy invasion, was only one of her soldier sons on the Army's casualty list. Still carried as missing were sons Edward (a bomber gunner in Burma) and Robert (a sergeant with the paratroopers in Normandy...
Myitkyina had been taken at last, but for General Joseph Stilwell there was taste of bitter tea in the victory. Among the troops taking part were only a token few of Brigadier General Frank Merrill's famed Marauders, organized especially for the north Burma campaign. The cold fact was that Merrill's Marauders had "blown...
...Burma, which already had one such unit (Wingate's Raiders), had less than its share of good jungle troops. By this summer, the Marauders had carried the ball for Uncle Joe for three harrowing months of action, were shot through with malaria and other fevers, exhausted, suffering from malnutrition. They were sent to rear-base hospitals and rest camps. But there was no move to send them home. The virus of disaffection began to work...