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| Formato físico adicional: | Online version: Romanus, Charles F. Stilwell's command problems. Washington, Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1956 [c1955] (OCoLC)570831062 |
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| Persona designada: | Joseph Warren Stilwell |
| Tipo de material: | Publicación gubernamental, Publicación gubernamental nacional, Recurso en Internet |
| Tipo de documento: | Recurso en Internet |
| Todos autores / colaboradores: |
Charles F Romanus; Riley Sunderland |
| Número OCLC: | 1259571 |
| Descripción: | xviii, 518 p. : ill., maps (4 fold. col., 2 in pocket), ports., charts ; 26 cm. |
| Contenido: | Plans and Preparations for the North Burma Campaign: October-December 1943 -- The Last Preparations -- Sextant: The Watershed -- The India-Based Air Effort -- The North Burma Campaign: December 1943-August 1944 -- Breaking the Stalemate in North Burma -- The Burma Campaign in the Balance -- The Drive for Myitkyina -- Logistics and Administration -- Command Problems in China Theater -- Decisions to Attack -- The Chinese Take the Offensive -- Facing the Command Problem -- The China Crisis of 1944 -- The end of CBI Theater. |
| Título de la serie: | United States Army in World War II., China-Burma-India theater. |
| Responsabilidad: | by Charles F. Romanus and Riley Sunderland. |
Resumen:
Notas:
< This volume continues the CBI story from October 1943 through General Stilwell's dramatic recall in October 1944. In 1943 the President, overruling the War Depart-ment, decided that China-based air power, supplied by air over "the Hump," was a better investment in aid to China than General Stilwell's plans for strengthening, reforming, and employing Chiang Kai-shek's armies, and General Stilwell therefore decided in October 1943 to concentrate his efforts on the India-Burma scene. But his "command problems," already extraordinary, were further compli-cated by his designation as Deputy Commander, under Lord Mountbatten, of the Southeast Asia Command, and by his responsibility for providing logistical support to the B-29s based in China, as well as to General Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. During this period the project that was most demanding on General Stilwell's attention finally got under way-the campaign in north Burma to gain con-trol of Myitkyina, to clear the route for the Ledo Road and a pipeline to China, and, in cooperation with the British, to unhinge the Japanese defense of Burma. The authors sketch the strategic background of this con-troversial campaign and the Anglo-American debates over it at the Cairo Conference and later. (See also Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare: 1943-1944.) They then describe the campaign in north Burma, with detailed atten-tion to the exhausting thrust of Merrill's Marauders, the major U.S. ground combat force in the theater, to Myitky-ina and the long struggle to occupy and hold the town. In the summer of 1944 Stilwell had once more to give his full attention to China, when the Japanese launched a large-scale offensive and Chiang's forces were unable to prevent them from overrunning Chennault's airfields. Stil-well's proposal, supported by the President, was to put Stilwell in command of the threatened Chinese forces, in-cluding some Chinese Communist units that were fighting the Japanese. When Chiang refused to accept Stilwell, the President recalled him. The volume concludes with a well-documented account of these dramatic events, including the mission of General Hurley to China as the President's representative. > - Analytical description from: US Army in WW II : Reader’s guide. – 1992. p.94
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