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...British flyers won shoestring control of the air over Burma last week. It was not decisive, for the Japanese could, if necessary, double their air power in Burma overnight-something that General Sir Archibald Wavell and Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault each wished that he could...
...control of the air over Yünnanyi, most advanced Jap base inside southwest China, the flyers hit Lashio four times to try to jam the railhead through which supplies flow to the Japs' Salween front. For the first time they jumped on Japanese convoys on the Burma Road in broad daylight, hitting oil dumps in the junction town of Mingmao twice and catching trucks dispersed under trees. They blew up a railroad bridge south of Mandalay...
...limited nature of General Wavell's attack in Burma was now clear. He wanted Akyab. He wanted it as an air base for attacks on Rangoon and Mandalay, and so that the Japs could not have it for attacks on Chittagong and Calcutta. His advance last week crept forward without major Japanese opposition but in the face of a bitterly resisting terrain to within 25 miles of the objective. To support him Allied flyers pasted Japanese bases at Heho and Shwebo, near Mandalay. They attacked Magwe, 128 miles east of Akyab, three times in two days. And they attacked...
Skillful flyers were being developed over Burma. As in the Solomons and at sea, they were exacting a far heavier toll from the Japanese than the Japs from them...
...like Stalin, was tough. So were his people. He took the major political risk of the year in tackling Britain and. the U.S., and, for the year, it turned out to be a good speculation. His armies conquered Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma. Never in history had one nation conquered so much so quickly. Seldom had any nation's fighting abilities been underestimated so badly. Tojo, or Emperor Hirohito, in whose name all Japanese wage holy war, might well have been the man of the year, if the explosive Japanese campaigns...