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There are a lot more American troops (mostly Air Corps men) in the China-Burma-India theater of war these days than most people realize. So now a special edition of TIME is being printed on the other side of the world for these servicemen who are farthest away from the U.S. and most completely cut off from other sources of news from home...
...copies come off the press Army transport planes rush them west to Karachi, south to Agra, east to Calcutta and on to our airfields in Assam. There some of the copies are piled into Army trucks bound for the new Ledo Road that American boys are building across Burma into China. Others are loaded into little Army liaison planes, flown over the jungles and dropped by parachute to servicemen farther out than even the road can reach...
Still other copies of TIME are part of the vital supplies that unarmed, unescorted transport planes carry across Zero-infested Burma and over 17,000-ft. Himalayan passes to Kunming in China. These copies vault the top of the world and pass over "the worst stretch of country covered by any of the world's farflung war transport operations" to reach General Claire Chennault and his airmen. And every week 50 more copies reach key Chinese leaders via TIME Correspondent Teddy White in Chungking...
...course the Army morale branch (Special Services) had been sending copies of TIME by air to each unit of our forces in China-Burma-India for many months. But this new TIME-edition (the first U.S. magazine ever published in India) is making it possible for many, many more servicemen to get TIME still more quickly...
These determined replies meant that as long as Stilwell commanded U.S. forces in China, Burma and India, building of the Ledo Road and the killing of Japs by Americans and American-trained Chinese would continue. The bigger job of killing more Japs could only be begun when the strength-starved India-Burma-China theater got the ships, planes and men to make it possible...