Word: myitkyina
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...terrific task: it meant fighting and building his way through hundreds of miles of trackless country, across mountains and through jungles. Last week, within 50 miles of Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch-i-nah), the goal whose capture would make his campaign a success, the Japs made a savage attempt to stop...
Wingate's jungle-wise raiders had already put the Japanese in a spot by cutting their rail and river communications below Myitkyina. Stilwell's own forces had pocketed the large Jap "force farther north. The Japs, rallying every man they had, made a desperate attack on Stilwell's road block. They breached it, were thrown back in desperate fighting beyond. Then Stilwell's Chinese took the offensive, drove the Japs from their dugouts by the river bank. In the jungles, ringing with the earsplitting metallic whine of cicadas, the fighting went on for over ten days...
...last week's end the orphaned Raiders had cut the Burma railway between Myitkyina and Katha, controlled the Irrawaddy river in two places, cutting off the Japs who oppose General Stilwell's advance down the Mogaung Valley from their bases...
...Southeast Asia Commander Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten made his boldest move since arriving in the Far East five months ago. Some 150 miles south of Stilwell, near the key Japanese base of Myitkyina he sent U.S.-manned gliders and troop transports, filled with British Indian troops, to land back of enemy lines. It was the first Allied airborne operation of the Asiatic...
...There is one thing I particularly stress, and it is the danger of speculating on future moves. . . . For example, when I was in Burma last year, I laid most careful plans for misleading the Japanese into thinking we would withdraw north towards Myitkyina, whereas it was my intention to slip away and across the Chindwin River at Kalewa, thereby extricating my force from an almost impossible position. . . . To my consternation, the night before we moved, it was given out on the air that 'the British forces are withdrawing to their base at Kalewa.' The result was that...