By last week it was clear that the five-month-old British attempt to retake the west coast of Burma had ended in disheartening failure. As the troops and supply columns plodded through paddy fields and low hills over dusty military roads built by their own engineers last winter, they were sad proof that the British Indian command still had not learned the lessons taught by the Japanese jungle fighters in their invasion of Burma 16 months ago.
The main British objective was to retake Akyab, the small seaport on the coast of the Bay of...
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