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Dispatches from India noted the drying up in Burma of the monsoon rains. Over the radio crackled the words of Sir Rich ard Peirse, Commander in Chief of the British Air Force in India: "We stand in battle array, not only ready to meet the enemy, but waiting to go out and find him. . . . We have covered the face of India with airfields." Brigadier General Caleb V. ("Old Grizzly") Haynes, reviewing the job he has done in directing U.S. air attacks from India, declared that Burma was no fortress, that Japanese facilities in the country had been "pulverized...
...steamy Southeast Asia theater began to pop with activity. Planes of the Tenth U.S. Army Air Force and the R.A.F in India intensified their harassment of the Burma coast, of Jap shipping around Rangoon, of Jap supply routes near Mandalay and along the Irrawaddy River. Allied-trained and equipped Chinese troops, based in India, skirmished with Jap troops along the North Burma frontier, forced their retreat and destroyed their lines of communication. Reports came of British submarine operations as far south as the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula...
...this might be a feint; it was conceivable that Lord Louis Mountbatten, Commander of the Southeast Asia theater, might launch his major blow, not at Burma, but at the Malay Peninsula. It was conceivable that last week's threats were a nerve war. Lord Louis, still in London a fortnight ago, could not prepare a major campaign with a twist of his wrist. An invasion of the thick, mountainous jungle terrain of Burma called for a major effort, as the British had already found...
...fighting to the Luftwaffe. But, by their presence in Italian ports, they had pinned down and exposed to German air attack a big portion of British sea power. Now many of the British ships may be used for 1) invasion duty off other European coasts; 2) support for a Burma-China campaign in the Bay of Bengal...
Quiet Jack Belden went to China in 1931 and has been a war correspondent since 1937 (for U.P., I.N.S., TIME & LIFE). He marched with the Chinese armies, flew with the Americans, retreated from Burma with General Stilwell, marched from Egypt with the Eighth Army into Tunisia, landed in Sicily with the U.S. First Infantry Division...