An inadequate railroad wandered lazily up the Bramaputra Valley to the farthest outpost of civilization in the northeast corner of Assam. Designed to service only the normal peacetime needs of the tea plantations in this part of India. the railroad terminated at Ledo. an insignificant native village surrounded by junglecovered hills. This same village had been the end of the trail for those refugees from northern Burma who fled ahead of the Japs in 1942. From Ledo. so named by the Italians who first opened the coal mines in the adjacent hills. began to unwind the road which was to make famous the name of the obscure Indian village. Beyond the railroad lay the unbroken barrier of the Patkai Mountain Range stretching out like a giant finger from the Himalayas.
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