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...goes, with Harry Zinder and Fillmore Calhoun waiting in the Middle East for the British Ninth Army to start its long-looked-for move into the Balkans-with William Fisher and James Shepley in India and Teddy White in Chungking, waiting for Lord Louis Mountbatten to take the offensive in the East-with William Walton and Wilmott Ragsdale, waiting in Britain to cross the channel with the American and British Armies when the day comes for a Western Front in Europe...
From India, Lord Louis Mountbatten could direct a campaign against Burma. His objectives: 1) a strong position in the rear flank of Japan's southern empire; 2) the Burma Road, over which supplies could be punched through to China; 3) possibly Malaya and Singapore, which could be exploited again as a naval base from which to harry the Jap lines to The Netherlands East Indies...
...Between Mountbatten and Nimitz, on what has been the No.1 front since the Pacific war began, General Douglas MacArthur would finish pinching off Rabaul, advance along New Guinea to a position which could threaten the East Indies...
...spearheaded lines on the map stop away short of Tokyo. How would Mountbatten proceed across the part of China which is firmly held by Jap troops? Where would Nimitz head after he had seized the bases on the Jap periphery? How would he destroy a Jap fleet which refused to engage? Where would MacArthur go from the Philippines...
...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...