Word: myitkyina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops, many of whom had fought Japs at Myitkyina and Akyab, were taking on a new kind of enemy-organized brigands called dacoits who held Burma's hinterlands in a reign of terror. In a single recent month Burma has reported 1,350 dacoities.* Because frightened paddy field workers cowered in their homes and half Burma's fields lay fallow, Burmans went hungry and Indians and Chinese starved for lack of Burma's rice...
Monocle in Myitkyina...
After reading the issue of TIME (Nov. 20) in which you tell of the jeep-operated Myitkyina Mogaung railroad, I thought you would be interested in seeing a ticket on that important transportation line...
This ticket was given me by Major Shuttleworth, one of General Wingate's officers and a Mogaung conqueror, on our return trip from Myitkyina the day after the capture of the railroad...
...other convoys will be different. Ours was the first. The sun was burning through the morning fog at Myitkyina [pronounced Myit-chi-nah] when we set out, 100-odd vehicles in line. The American drivers, white and colored alike, the Chinese engineers, were especially selected from units that had slaved to build the road...