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...Asiatic mainland, the Chinese captured Lungling, drove closer to the reopening of the Burma Road. Farther east, bitter fighting raged around the beleaguered Chinese city of Changsha, and from the south, around Canton, the Japanese launched another drive into the heart of China...
...Burma, wounded mules are sometimes flown...
Last week the U.S. War and Navy Departments announced that six types of U.S. fighters and fighter bombers have been equipped with rocket guns, that they have been used in the Pacific, Burma and Mediterranean theaters. Rockets give little recoil when fired. Their penetration power and fanning explosions are spectacularly effective against barges, bivouac areas, fuel and ammunition dumps...
...without lifting an eyebrow, driving a jeep with one hand, clutching a pistol with the other, while his aide blasted the jungle thickets with a machine gun. Alexander was not blamed for Dunkirk or Burma. In both theaters, he was in the position of a relief pitcher who enters a baseball game with his team ten runs behind...
Stilwell's Chinese and American infantry reached the outskirts of the Japanese supply base in north Burma last fortnight -after a bitterly difficult 23-day march. At week's end they still had a firm grip on the most important airfield in north Burma, two miles to the south, were attacking from positions north and southwest of the village. The capture of Myitkyina appeared only a matter of time...