0566

Scene of furious battles with ….Japs, and the product of …., blood, toil, and determination. The Burma-Ledo highway is open again. As a tribute to Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, who planned the artery and almost saw it completed before his recall from China. The 620 mile highway has been officially named the Stilwell road. Stretching across monsoon-swollen rivers, steep hills and fever-infested jungles to bring supplies to China, the Stilwell Road has become the main artery from which new blows against Japan will soon be delivered. These pictures show the first China-bound convoy to travel over the Stilwell road since the Jap invasion of Burma in 1942. Kunming, China, 1000 miles from the starting point, Ledo, is the final destination of the convoy.
New York Bureau
At Myitkyina, Burma, Chinese soldiers who fought to open the road stand at the sidelines and wave to the passing trucks. Photo by Frank Cancellare, ACME photographer for the War Picture Pool.
Credit line—WP—(ACME)