Wanting, last main link in the new Allied supply chain to China (see above), fell last week after a savage fight for the high ground dominating the town. From that battlefield, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White cabled:
Here on this mountaintop in the sun is the end of the long campaign. Not even Hollywood could have written it better. The 7,500-ft. mountain over there that the Japs hold is called Huilungshan and it is on the border of China. On the other side is Burma. Chinese soldiers are going to take that mountain and...
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