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Bombs for Everybody. Twice within a week the Fifteenth attacked the important railway center of Zagreb; other attacks centered on the port of Spalato (Split) and the inland town of Brod, headquarters of a Nazi tank corps. But these jobs were only part of a busy week's work for the Fifteenth Air Force...
...Railway and Stilwell. Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell's announced aim was to recapture North Burma. His real reason for the objective was to obtain more supplies for Chennault and the Chinese. If he could succeed, the tiny trickle from the railway-Hump route could be roundly increased by trucks over the Ledo road...
...Stilwell's supplies also flowed up the Bengal-Assam railway, along with the gasoline and parts that still give the tightly knit Allied Air Force control of the air and the power to lay down what the Burma fighters needed on the Allied "dropping grounds" in the jungles. If the railway fell, Joe Stilwell's venture would fail. The Jap had made a neat estimate of the situation...
This week while Stilwell's troops diligently cut enemy supply lines in North Burma, the Jap stood on the outskirts of Kohima, was only ten miles from Imphal, only 35 miles from the railway. Said New Delhi: ". . . Slightly increased pressure on the Arakan front...
...official summary from Naples pointed out: "The temporary destruction of railway lines and the incidental destruction of rolling stock and supplies cannot fail to influence the progress of the Russian advance into the Balkans. A secondary result is to confuse further the political situation in the puppet countries striving to avoid entanglement in the German collapse." Some observers thought the Balkan raids alone might eventually justify Allied strategy in landing in Italy...