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...down to lunch with tough, young looking (47) Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral The Lord Louis Mountbatten, to hear the news from southeast Asia at first hand. Those who were not asked to lunch plunged headlong into weighty speculations on present and future Allied strategy in Burma. General Wedemeyer, emerging from the White House, said nothing. Said the President: Supplies are reaching China over the Himalayan Hump in a "satisfactory" manner...
...year ago the British failed to take the strategic Akyab port and air base because they had not mastered Jap jungle tactics and turned them against the enemy. The 1944 campaign also seemed destined to be a bust unless Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten can draw to a full house before the monsoons begin...
...Problem. For the first time, hints of friction in Southeast Asia had been spoken out loud. Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten differs with Stilwell, looks far into the future, wants to retake Sumatra, Malaya (with Singapore), Thailand, Indo-China, punch through a sea route to China. Stilwell's Chinese troops and his air force are necessary for that program...
...India. Mountbatten unified his air forces. Asia waited...
...Delhi, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, disciple of unified command, welded units of the R.A.F. and U.S. Army Air Forces into a single air force. Its commander:purse-mouthed, able Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, onetime chief of R.A.F.'s Bomber Command...