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On Mon. 02 Feb 1942 Lieutenant-General Thomas Hutton, the GOC Burma Ar.....

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Lieutenant-General Thomas Hutton, the GOC Burma Army, was injured when the Lysander aircraft in which he was flying to meet with Chiang Kaishek crash landed near Lashio, Burma.

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