LINK-UP IN BURMA
REMARKABLE ALLIED FEAT Rec. 10 a.m. KANDY, Dec. 18. As a result of the linking of the British Fourteenth Army troops from the Chindwin with the men of the Thirty-sixth Division on the Myit-kyina-Mandalay railway, a major part of North Burma is now sealed off to the Japanese.
Behind this link-up is the story of a remarkable march by British Indian troops from the Chindwin, which they crossed secretly in the middle of November. They marched over wild, jungle-clad hills. More than 800 vehicles were ferried across the Chindwin and moved along a road hewn out of a sheer cliff face.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 147, 19 December 1944, Page 5
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