1944年8月29日中国部队试图重新打开滇缅公路

1944年8月29日中国部队试图重新打开滇缅公路

日军机枪守卫着中国西南的怒江前线,中国军队因而需要小心前行。中国部队试图重新打开滇缅公路。在尘土覆盖的碉堡里的日军全都被歼灭了。这支由中国最高指挥官卫立煌领军的中国精锐部队,同时试图在缅甸北部与美军约瑟夫·史迪威将军的军队以及美军的一支联络组会合。这场回合将打通滇缅公路和列多公路,从而开启一条从印度到中国的补给道路。

8/29/44Chinese Soldiers Battle to Reopen Burma Road

Chinese soldiers advance cautiously on aJapanese gun position on the Salween River front in southwestern China,as their unit pushes forward in the drive to reopen the Burma Road.The only Japanese found in the earth-covered pillbox were dead ones.Commanded by Chinese Marshal Wei Li-huang,the soldiers are numbers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force which,with aU.S.liaison unit,is attempting to make ajunction with the forces of U.S.General Joseph W.Stilwell in upper Burma.The junction will permit linking of the old Burma Road and the new Ledo Road,providing adirect supply route from India into China.