Into Washington's Boiling Field, on a four-engined bomber from India, came Eric Sevareid, crack CBS reporter; within four hours he was popped before a microphone to give these sharp-cut impressions of the India-Burma-China theater:
Jungle War. "The Japanese and the junglesboth are implacable. There is rain, a soggy, degrading heat, and always the dysentery and malaria. . . . Supplies for men and aircraft are scarce. . . . The preliminary skirmishes for Burma . . . are already going on. American-trained Chinese troops are clearing the way for the new Ledo Road . . . from India."
Military Strategy. "Any...
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