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...Result. On the Burma front, a thoughtful soldier wrote to his mother in England: "Don't worry about me, mum. I'll keep my head down." Later hit by fly ing shrapnel, he wrote again: "In the future I'll keep both ends down...
...jungles and mountains of north Burma an obscure and confusing military picture suddenly came clear for all to see. Like the arcs of a circle (see map), three different forces drew around the strategic village of Myitkyina (rhymes with hitch-in-ah) while a fourth came out from China...
Also under Stilwell's command was the column of Katchin levies and Gurkhas moving down from the top of north Burma upon Myitkyina...
Almost on the eve of the monsoon the Chinese struck from the Salween. In Yunnan 20,000 picked troops and the Americans of Stilwell's Y (for Yunnan) force lunged from the Burma Road westward against Japanese lines. Their drive met strong Japanese resistance, was still 80 airline miles from Myitkyina...
...proved that the Japanese could be defeated in the Burma jungle. Just two years ago this month Stilwell led a little column of defeated men & women out of Burma. Then he had made this prophecy : "The Japanese are not supermen. If we go back properly proportioned and properly equipped we can throw them out." The prophecy had begun to come true...