Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1945 — Page 26

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{ | weeks and months by surface trans- { port.

? up by air transport command planes lcarrier field where they were en!

| tain tribes of Kachins, Chins, and | the headhunting Nagas. Before {United States engineers accom-| | plished the Herculean job of driving | the Ledo road, now known as the

| the demands of the war in Europe |

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| during the war, will begin its reg- | | ular meeting schedule with a series

{after the fall of | Myitkyina town |the . next August {there were at all

{000 and ‘100,000 {troops involved in fighting and de- | pendent largely or entirely on food, equipment and pf : ammunition that 3 ‘ could be air<sup- Oem: Marshall plied, either by parachute, free drop ‘lor air landed. The air supply was maintained | {by troop carrier squadrons, British {and American, commanded by Brig. {Gen. William D. Old, under the di-

WAR...

THE re-entry into Burma was the most ambitious campaign yet waged on the end of an airborne supply

disease and unfavorable climate; | he faced an extremely difficult political problem and his purely military problem of opposing large num

man between two great governments other than his own, with slender resources ahd problems somewhat overwhelming in their complexity. As a consequence it was deemed necessary in the fall of 1944 to relieve Gen. Stilwell of the burden of his heavy responsibilities in Asia and give him a respite from attempting the impossible.

{rection of Gen. Stratemeyer’s east- | lern air command.

| C-46s and 47s shuttled from numer | {ous bases and air strips in the {Brahmaputra valley to points of {rendezvous with the allied ground columns in the Burma jungles. ! | Each trip had to be flown over {one or more’ of the steep spines! which the Himalayas shove south-' {ward along the India-Burma fronItier to establish one of the most formidable barriers, to military op-

the height of the campaign averaged 230 hours of flying time each |serviceable plane a month for three months. The normal average month-

| At two critical stages of the campaign. the troop carrier squadrons assisted by air transport command planes made major troop move ments in a matter of hours and days that would have required

. . . | THE FIRST was the movement {of British and Indian troops to {meet the threat of the Bengal-Assam railroad at Dimapur. The second {was thé movement of two Chinese | divisions, the 14th And 50th, from | Yunnan, China, Atros$ thé Hump to thé troop carrier base at Sookerating, in Assam, India. This operation was accomplished in just eight days. The Chinese troops: were picked

{in China and landed at the troop

| tirely refitted, armed, and flown to | a staging area in the Hukawng from {Where they entered the battle for Myitkyina. : ! Only by air supply was the Burma | campaign at all possible, The jungle | {covered ridges between India and [Burma have effectively resisted the | advance of civilisations, . 8»

THEY ARE inhabited by moun- |

Stilwell road, across the mountains and through the jungles, a road! from the Brahmaputra to the Irra-| | waddy valley was considered an! impossibility. The mission that the joint chiefs | of staff had given Gen. Stilwell in! Asia was“ one of the most difficult | of the war, He was out at the end of the thinnest supply line of all; |

and the Pacific campaign, which |

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RESUME ACTIVITIES

The first post-war meeting of the | Mallory Camera club will be held at 7:30 tonight ‘at the Mallory J cafeteria. The club, inactivated |

of moving pictures. . | Bob Long, formér Universal and Paramount cameraman, will exhibit | and discuss a number of color and, black-and-white movies, and speak on camers types, i

LAUSCHE TO RUN AGAIN COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 12 (U. P).| —Gov. Frank J. Lausche yesterday | announced he would run in the! 1946 primary election 197 a second | term as governor of Ohio.

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ment and all But absorbed appeared advisable fo make a clear thing else we had. =. | division of the two theaters. Gen. Stilwell could have only! Accordingly, the American udwhat was left and that was. ex. | ministrative area of China-Burma-tremely thin, PARE India was separated into the IndiaOR Burma and the China theaters. Lt. HE HAD a most diffieult physical Sultan, who had

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