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There were no communiqués. But the problems were clear. First & foremost, with good will and common sense, order had to be brought into the chaotic, overlapping organization of the continental front against Japan. Another problem was Burma. The men at Chungking certainly weighed the great difficulties of a campaign to re-establish an overland link with China. But, whatever they decided, the Jap had already struck the first blow...
...Bridgehead Lost. To China, the Jap blow was serious. Six hundred miles southwest of Chungking, the enemy moved from northern Burma into Yünnan. His columns struck at a pocket of Chinese troops who for a year and a half have held, against attack and malaria, a 13-mile bridgehead including two ferry crossings, on the Salween River's west bank...
...China theater was still 15,000 miles from home. Across the supply line that could make the air war big, muscular and effective, still lay the enemy in Burma, the Himalayas to the west. China would have to wait, but China could wait. No one knew that better than Claire Chennault and his dust-caked...
Bombing Missions. Chased out of Poland by the Nazis, De Luce was later chased from Greece. He was in Persia during the 1941 fighting, then went on to India, Burma. He rode on bombing missions against the Japs, sent grim stories about Allied inadequacies: "Boys with matchless courage are being slaughtered because they are in inadequate numbers, ill-trained, poorly equipped. . . . The last tired companies of what were proud battalions are -. . . in a galling retreat...
After a rest in the U.S. (to recover from malaria and dysentery), De Luce covered the Tunisian campaign. In Italy two weeks ago he ran into British General Harold Alexander, whom he had "covered" in Burma's darkest days. Said the General with well-bred surprise: "You [newspaper] chaps get around extraordinarily well...