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...last week's end the orphaned Raiders had cut the Burma railway between Myitkyina and Katha, controlled the Irrawaddy river in two places, cutting off the Japs who oppose General Stilwell's advance down the Mogaung Valley from their bases...
...evening Major General Wingate, in command of British troops operating behind the Japanese lines in Burma, had to make a rush visit to his air commando force. A terrific tropical storm was raging at his base airstrip,* but he climbed into a Mitchell B-25 and took off. He did not arrive at his destination...
Thus perished Wingate of the bushy beard, originator, trainer, brains and spark plug of the Burma Raiders. Wingate was one of those talented originals that some alchemy of British culture occasionally produces. Like Clive of India, "Chinese" Gordon, Lawrence of Arabia (a distant cousin), Wingate was an eccentric and an artist in unorthodox military operations...
When Field Marshal Wavell wanted to harry the Japanese, he remembered Ethiopia, sent for Wingate, made him a Brigadier, gave him a free hand to become the Lawrence of Burma...
...Burma frontier has almost never before known such weather at this season of the year. With the monsoon not due for at least a month, high winds and tropical downpours, some of them lasting five days at a time, have pelted the area repeatedly in recent weeks. *Strikingly beautiful Mrs. Wingate, reported to be expecting a child shortly, first saw Wingate at the rail of a liner when she was 15 and he 30, introduced herself by saying, "You're the man I'm going to marry." Answered Wingate: "You are right. When?" Two years later she wrote...