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...Matter of Experience. U.S. ground troops had nothing behind them but training camps and the remote and vicarious experiences of Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, New Guinea. The British troops had been tempered by Norway, France, Dunkirk, Greece, Crete, Burma, many blunders and defeats, a great deal of desert and two years against the master, Rommel. The first U.S. phase in Tunisia was a time of learning, a waking up. Said an officer attached to Lieut. General George S. Patton's II Corps: "All this will be great practice for the next show...
...week did not mean that no more German planes would fly over Tunisia or that no more Allied men would be killed by German bombs. But it did mean a happy reversal of the refrain of France, Crete and Burma: "Where are our planes...
...British were ready to admit that the second Burma campaign, like the first, had been lost. The winner: Major General Masakasu Kawabe, Commander of the Japanese...
...short and dismal history of the second Burma campaign the British never had made their purposes clear. A major accomplishment would have been the seizure of the Jap base at Rangoon on the Bay of Bengal. In the end the British would have settled for the little harbor and air base of Akyab, about 325 miles north of Rangoon. But even Akyab now was beyond reach - at least until the end of the monsoon, some time in October...
...London News Chronicle wrote the epitaph on the grave of earlier hopes : "Nothing less than a full-scale sea, land and air assault can blast (the Jap) out of Burma." From Chungking, TIME'S Correspondent T. H. White filed a dispatch through U.S. and Chinese censors: "It is no secret anywhere in the world that the decision of the Battle of Asia will be fought in Burma some time...