Word: rangoon
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Riding Thai war elephants, slithering through the upland jungles afoot, backed up by slit-eyed little Siamese soldiers from feckless Thailand, the invaders swarmed through the mountain passes on the Thailand-Burma border. They struck directly at Moulmein, about 170 miles east of Rangoon by the railroad around the Gulf of Martaban. Every Briton, every Colonial in the force that backed up before his advance knew what the enemy was after...
...route to Rangoon and the Burma Road, now 11,100 miles would be stretched to 14,300 because it would have to go around Australia. If supplies are cut off from the Chinese, China's resistance will be so reduced the Japanese can withdraw troops from China for use elsewhere-1;including an attack at Russia's rear...
...recognized the danger. He stabbed at Rangoon with his bombers, with the dual purpose of knocking out Allied aircraft and smashing the supply depots for the Burma Road. He missed the Chinese Army's supplies, dissipated his effort. There was a reason: U.S. pilots...
...Only A.P.'s Clark Lee got out a brief dispatch-about three soldiers who escaped capture by playing dead. His story was relayed by Naval radio. Like MacArthur's bare communiqués, it said nothing about the whereabouts of the correspondents. Adventures of some others: > At Rangoon U.P.'s Darrell Berrigan lay dangerously ill of cerebral malaria. He had come through the jungles from Bangkok, outwitted the Japs who arrested him as a spy on the Thailand-Burma border. > A.P.'s 34-year-old Larry Allen, now back with the British Mediterranean fleet, turned...
...Japanese bombed Rangoon, devastated the neighborhood of his hotel. He moved to another. On Christmas the Japanese razed that hotel with incendiaries. Finally cadging a ride by plane to Lashio and another to Kunming, much-traveled Correspondent MacDonald arrived in China, wrote his dispatch, then proceeded to Chungking to wind up his 4,700-mile trip in his usual unruffled state...