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Turning point · China in Revolution, 1911–1949
The Burma Road
1938–45 — From this railhead, 1,100 km of hairpin mountain road — dug largely by hand — carry Free China’s imports to Kunming. Cut by Japan in 1942, replaced by the Hump airlift over the Himalaya (600,000 tons, at the cost of some 600 Allied aircraft), reopened as the Ledo Road in 1945. Geography is why China cannot be starved out.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — Stalemate — Two Chinas at War in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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