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Burma campaign

  • Burma campaignIn January 1942, the Japanese Fifteenth Army under Lieutenant General Shōjirō Iida moved into northern Thailand and launched an attack over jungle-clad…
  • Japanese invasion of BurmaBefore the Second World War broke out, Burma was part of the British Empire. It had been progressively occupied and annexed following three Anglo-Burmese…
  • Burma RoadThe Burma Road stretched across rough mountain country, connecting Lashio in Burma to Kunming in China. Its construction began in 1937 and finished by 1938.