“I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. I thinly we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it!”
THOSE WORDS of a famous American soldier carried all the way around the world when the last of the Allied forces retreated from Burma into India during the first stages of the war in Asia. The speaker was Lt. Gen. Joe Stilwell who had led the retreat after trying to stop the Japanese in the fighting from Rangoon to Mandalay.
Because they were fighting words, they appealed strongly to Americans…
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