World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Uncle Joe Turns Up

Out of the wreck of Burma last week came Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell. When the outside world had last heard of him, "Uncle Joe" and his Chinese Fifth and Sixth Armies were cut off, and had swung north in a, ferocious slash at the back of the Jap.

There was no more word until he turned up at the northeastern India frontier leading a motley column.

But the Chinese Fifth and Sixth Armies were not with Joe Stilwell. They were still fighting the Jap in Burma, or had filtered back into China, or...

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