Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1945 — Page 17

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~ Southward in-‘the Arakan, British operations cleared the Kaladan river delta on the Aragon coast. This provided air strips at Akyab and on

cut the Japanese {supply line to | IB .

ithelrrawaddy G°™ Marshall

near Pagan and drove to Meiktila. The seizure of this road and raii center with its airfields wundermined the whole Japanese position |i central Burma,

~In—the meantime; other British-

Indish forces were clobing on Mans dalay from the north and west. Japanese trapped m

| Maren 21.

: ee» # 3 FORTY DAYS later British airborne troops descended along the

south of the port and assault troops came ashore the following day.

entered on May 3. The port facilities were captured in good condition,

The Burma campaign had all but ended. A few Japanese units were able to withdraw eastward into Thailand and into the Moulmein area of southern Burma. . ” » BUT THOUSANDS of the enemy were put off in isolated ‘pockets with little hope of escape. Adm. Mountbatten reported the fighting had already cost Japan 300,000 casualties of which 97,000 were counted dead. The Asiatic operations had been maintained at the end of the most precarious supply lines in history. The efforts of the United States service forces to strengthen them: were prodigious. . & = UNITED STATES port battalions at Calcutta worked ih intolerable heat and humidity with native la-

REPORT oN THE WAR... by Gen. George C. Marl _

“The Miracle of the Supply Line to China

DURING 1943 and 1944 the flow of United States arms and materiél| fo

western shore of the Rangoon river | Pacity

SUPPORTED by thé 14th air troops slowed

‘toumount in 1944 and 1945. of this year the smashing attack

who had béen fighting the Japanese for eight long years. The war department made available to him two of the army com-

It alone made possible the indis-| manders who had helped deféat pensable support which Gen. Chen-| the German Wehrmacht, Gen. nault’s 14th air force was able to| Truscott of the 5th army in Italy give the Chinese armies and the and Gen Simpson of the 9th army.

attacks by China-based ‘superfortresses on Japan's home islands,

. . ~ AT THE same time the air forces

In June of this year when the|in China were reorganized, the 10th

Marianas bases had been suffi-

{ air force from India was moved into

ciently developed, the China-basec China and both the 10th and 14th B-20's were sent -to the Pacific; Were placed under the general di-

where they could be more easily supplied. . . »

rection of Gen, Stratemeyer, While this reorganizgition was In progress, Gen. Chennault, who had

IN MAY 1944, however, the Jap-| commanded the original American anese had launched a strong drive| Volunteer group of “Flying Tigers” southward from Tung Ting lake in| and then became the first com.

Hunan province.

mander of the 14th air force, asked

In the late summer they begah|to be relieved.

a complementary drive west from

Canton

The war department granted his request, .and named Maj. Gen,

These salients joined near the|Charles B. Stone to succeed him. American air base at Kweilin sever- ”

ing unoccupied China, and overran the principal bases from|to provide some training and

seven of

. GEN. STILWELL had been able

which the 14th air force had been|equipment for 35 Chinese divisions

ping in the China Sea.

t| throwing its weight agdinst ship-|in his training centers in Yunnan.

Under the direction of the gen-

In April 1945, the Japanese drove eralissimo, Gen. Wedemeyer was

out of Paoching aga portant air base at Chibkiang.

our im-| continuing this mission with full

vigor and greatly increased re-

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