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...join the staff of the American Volunteer Group. . . . My service in the A.V.G. under General Chennault was the hardest and the most interesting work I have ever done. In late November 1941, General Chennault sent me to Manila to negotiate with General MacArthur. ... On my way back to Burma, I was caught in Hong Kong by the outbreak of war. During the fighting there, I placed myself under the command of our military observer, Colonel Reynolds Condon. When the surrender came, Colonel Condon instructed me to burn my A.V.G. papers and enter civilian internment with false papers as a newspaperman...
...view of what was happening on India's eastern border, New Delhi's communiqués seemed unduly confident, unduly self-assured. By them, Viceroy Sir Archibald Wavell, his deputy, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and his India-Burma-China theater commander, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten almost daily assured the world that there was no cause for alarm. But Washington was worried, anyhow. And so was London...
...much that the Japanese troops had managed to fight, by their own peculiar brand of military osmosis, from the jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil. So, in spite of New Delhi assurances, the spring-legged little invaders seemed a greater threat every day to the Bengal-Assam railway...
...supplies that get into China from the outside world, including fuel for Claire Chennault's tiny but vastly effective Fourteenth Air Force. The supplies are unloaded at the Assam terminus, transshipped to aircraft and whisked over the Hump, the Allies' aerial makeshift for the lost Burma road...
...Railway and Stilwell. Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell's announced aim was to recapture North Burma. His real reason for the objective was to obtain more supplies for Chennault and the Chinese. If he could succeed, the tiny trickle from the railway-Hump route could be roundly increased by trucks over the Ledo road...