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...tortuous mountains and jungles of Burma last week were checkerboarded with several local actions involving Chinese, British and U. S. troops against the Japanese...
...Frank Merrill is shy, studious, bespectacled. His duty tour as assistant military attache in Tokyo gave him an understanding of Japanese customs and language. At Pearl Harbor time he was on the way to Burma on a mission for Douglas MacArthur. Merrill stayed with Stilwell, became that old infantryman's right hand...
Ever since the Japs ran him out of Burma nearly two years ago Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell has been on the hunt for enough troops and supplies to fight his way back.* News from Burma last week indicated that "Vinegar Joe" was making at least a small start in the land of names that sound like unpronounceable grunts...
...Ledo Road. Purpose of Uncle Joe Stilwell's latest drive-460 miles northeast of Mountbatten's southward push toward Akyab-is to march across northern Burma over some of the world's cruelest, most miasmic terrain, clearing Japs from the path of the new Ledo Road which hopefully will connect with the old Burma Road. Thus eventually a route to China may be opened to supplement supply by airplanes flying the "hump...
Merrill's Marauders arrived in India in October, soon got used to the Burma jungle. From Ledo last month they began their 100-mile circling march to the rear of the Japanese concentrations at Maingkwan, averaging 20 miles a day down crude trails Kachin tribes of Burmese had hacked many years ago. To avoid ambush, greatest terror of jungle warfare, intelligence and reconnaissance squads always patrolled the trails ahead of and behind their columns. Only once were they fooled by a grass dummy which was covered by a Jap machine gun- two men were killed but the lesson...