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Allied troops in north Burma and southeast China were only 26 miles apart across the savage mountains. They fought toward each other in wild, monsoon-sodden terrain (see map). But even if they succeeded in joining, it would be only a token. The real consideration in this remote. Godforsaken battleground is a road-and the road has to wait for clean-up in the rear, and until other terrain suitable for road-building is cleared by the fighters...
...like to control water," Pick ruefully told an interviewer in Burma. "Here, on this road, water tries to control...
...territory, where the Jap had obligingly helped out by maintaining a surfaced road from Kamaing to Mogaung, there joining the railway and highway to Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch'-i-nah). From Myitkyina it could go two ways: through jungle track northeast to Lauh-kaung, south to Tengyueh, east to Burma Road; or it could go south from Mogaung to Bhamo, northeast to Tengyueh. The battle's course would dictate the choice...
...driven almost 200 miles from Ledo, had knocked out about 17,700 Japanese casualties. His Chinese, Americans, British, Burmese and Indians had stamped out the 18th Japanese Division, whose fame at home was built on the rape of Nanking, the capture of Shanghai and Singapore, victories in Malaya and Burma. His troops had also badly mauled three other Jap divisions...
China's farmers had survived the invasion, migration, abuse by their own politicians, with their wives and children had hacked out such monumental works as the Burma Road, great runways for U.S. planes. Yet they had continued to feed China. China's guerrillas, Communist and Nationalist, had fought with old rifles, broadswords, grenades melted down from rice kettles, fled again & again, attacked again & again...