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During the early stages of World War II, the Empire of Japan invaded British Burma primarily to obtain raw materials (which included oil from fields around Yenangyaung, minerals and large surpluses of rice), and to close off the Burma Road, which was a primary link for aid and munitions to the Chinese Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek which had been fighting the Japanese for several years ...
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 involved forces of the Allies (mainly from the British Empire and the Republic of China, with support from the United States) against the invading forces of the Empire of Japan.
The US Army Campaigns of World War II. CMH Pub 72-21. Washington, DC: United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 978-0-16-042086-3. Webster, Donovan (2003). The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-11740-5.
The fighting in the Burma campaign in 1944 was among the most severe in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II.It took place along the borders between Burma and India, and Burma and China, and involved the British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces, against the forces of Imperial Japan and the Indian National Army.
The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and the units of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in China.
The Japanese occupation of Burma was the period between 1942 and 1945 during World War II, when Burma was occupied by the Empire of Japan. The Japanese had assisted formation of the Burma Independence Army, and trained the Thirty Comrades, who were the founders of the modern Armed Forces . The Burmese hoped to gain support of the Japanese in ...
The War Against Japan: The Reconquest of Burma. History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series. Vol. IV (Imperial War Museum Department of Printed Books and Naval & Military Press Uckfield ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 978-1-84574-063-4. Wright, B. S. (1962). Wildlife Sketches: Near and Far. Fredericton, NB: Brunswick Press. OCLC ...
Part of the Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II: Location: Arakan, Burma (present-day Rakhine State, Myanmar) Date: 1942: Target: Rakhine Buddhists, Rohingya Muslims: Deaths: 20,000 Rakhinese deaths [better source needed] 40,000+ Rohingya deaths [1] Victims: Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims: Perpetrators ...