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With Stilwell's Chinese and American Forces in Burma...
...course of that vital but perilous job, ''Vinegar Joe" had turned one of the great Allied tricks of the war. He had shown the hollowness of the carefully nurtured doctrine that Burma's mountains and jungles were impossible to Anglo-Saxon troops. In a great and winning gamble to drive the enemy from North Burma, he was beginning to win. Joe Stilwell was fighting on the "impossible" ground, taking supplies from the air, pushing doggedly toward the Jap's pivotal base at Myitkyina. Wingate's Raiders, Merrill's Marauders and Joe Stilwell...
...Stilwell's supplies also flowed up the Bengal-Assam railway, along with the gasoline and parts that still give the tightly knit Allied Air Force control of the air and the power to lay down what the Burma fighters needed on the Allied "dropping grounds" in the jungles. If the railway fell, Joe Stilwell's venture would fail. The Jap had made a neat estimate of the situation...
This week while Stilwell's troops diligently cut enemy supply lines in North Burma, the Jap stood on the outskirts of Kohima, was only ten miles from Imphal, only 35 miles from the railway. Said New Delhi: ". . . Slightly increased pressure on the Arakan front...
...three could better rule the ruler's heart than two. The Maharaja complied, then issued a ringing challenge: Manipur would resist the Jap to the last man. The young men of Manipur, busy dancing and throwing crimson and purple powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers...