Moving To The Front Over Newly Completed Part Of Ledo Road -- Carrying their supplies by mule train, Chinese and American troops of U.S. General Joseph W. Stilwell's north Burma forces move slowly to the front along a newly completed part of the Ledo Road. Some of the troops and mules are resting beside a turn (right) before Continuing their gruelihg uphill journey U.S. Army engineers revealed on Sept. 25, 1944, that this vital supply link had reached dirt track "feeder" roads to China's southwestern Yunnan Province, The highway was begun in December, 1942, after the Japanese had cut the old Burma Road and blockaded all land routes to China. November 15, 1944. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).