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 Burma campaign (1942–1943) · Burma Independence Army · Heitarō Kimura

The Burma campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily by British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces

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. · In the main, World War II was fought along racial lines. For the Burman majority, it was nothing less than an uprising for national liberation.

31 июл. 2015 г. · It was a victory won through the courage and endurance of troops drawn from across the British Commonwealth, and the superb generalship of Slim.

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.

27 февр. 2024 г. · The Burma Campaign of the Japanese Fifteenth Army Crisis Fleeting: Original Reports on Military Medicine in India and Burma in the Second World War

12 авг. 2020 г. · The British Fourteenth Army who, in 1944 and 1945, fought a brutal and gruelling war in the jungles of Burma (now Myanmar) but who largely went uncelebrated in ...

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