The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma. It was part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II and primarily ... Burma campaign (1942–1943) · Burma Independence Army · Burma Campaign UK

It has largely been an ethnic conflict, with ethnic armed groups fighting Myanmar's armed forces, the Tatmadaw, for self-determination. Despite numerous ...

In January 1942, the Japanese Army invaded Burma. Allied troops endured over three years of brutal fighting, often in extreme terrain.

A large number of the British and Australian captives were sent to Burma (Myanmar). Burma was a key strategic objective for the Japanese for two reasons. First, ...

2 мар. 2010 г. · Burma, one of the most secretive and isolated countries in the world, was also one of the most violent theaters of conflict in the entire history of World War ...

The First Burma War (1824-26) and the Second Burma War (1852-53) both resulted in large tracts of Burmese territory being annexed to British India.

17 февр. 2011 г. · The campaign in which Allied forces defeated the Japanese in Burma was unique in that neither side particularly wished to wage war there. When ...

31 июл. 2015 г. · Burma was a part of the British Empire during the Second World War, so when Japan invaded Burma in January 1942, the British and Commonwealth ...

27 нояб. 2017 г. · The Canadians who served in the Burma Campaign were among the more than one million men and women from Canada who served during the Second World ...

4 дня назад · World War II - Burma, China, 1944-45: The Germans sustained 120000 casualties and the Americans sustained about 75000 in the Battle of the ...