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Frank Schiel was poised and confident. He had been decorated (Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross) for more than 200 breathtaking reconnaissance flights over Burma, Siam, Indo-China and Occupied China. He had participated in every major campaign in China, had shot down six Jap planes; he had stayed on to help knowing Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault train the China Air Task Force...
...British had pushed some 40 miles down the Bay of Bengal coast toward Akyab along one of three main invasion routes open to the United Nations. (The others: southwest from China down the Burma Road, east from Assam into northern Burma...
Reconquest of Burma is a formidable task which will probably require coordinated action along all three routes, plus a strong naval force along the Burmese coast. That would mean participation of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies on a footing of equality. China is anxious that the blow be struck only when sufficient planes, tanks, guns and other weapons (supplied by the U.S. and Britain) have been amassed to equip a concentration of soldiers (supplied chiefly by China and India...
...speaking their convictions in United Nations' councils, the Chinese have had to balance their fear of Japanese armies massed in northern Burma against the fear that the Allies might strike too soon. It looked last week as though the Chinese had argued one side of their case better than the other. General Wavell's cautiously worded communiqué made the British advance appear to be either an attempt to divert Japan from attacking southern China or a bid for hop-off positions for a future offensive, rather than a broadly conceived campaign to reconquer Burma...
...loss of Burma deprived India of 1,500,000 tons of rice. This year there were crop failures in several large provinces. In Punjab, where crops were good, they rotted because too many farmers came down with malaria at harvest time. All over the subcontinent hoarding was predicted by farmers, wholesalers, retailers and consumers who expected greater shortages and higher prices. Railways were so overburdened with war traffic that it was difficult to move grain from areas of plenty to those in need...