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China Burma India Theater ( CBI) was the United States military designation during World War II for the China and Southeast Asian or India–Burma (IBT) theaters. Operational command of Allied forces (including U.S. forces) in the CBI was officially the responsibility of the Supreme Commanders for South East Asia or China.
South-East Asian Theatre. Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II. A Chindit column crosses a river in Burma, 1943. Date. 8 December 1941 – 2 September 1945. (3 years, 9 months and 1 day) Location. Philippines, Thailand, Indochina, Dutch East Indies, Burma, India, Malaya, Singapore, Ceylon, Hong Kong. Result.
Tuófēng Hángxiàn. 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 468th Bombardment Group was a World War II United States Army Air Forces combat organization. The unit served primarily in the Pacific Ocean theater and China Burma India Theater of World War II as part of Twentieth Air Force. The 468th Bomb Group's aircraft engaged in very heavy bombardment Boeing B-29 Superfortress operations against Japan.
GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a category of airfields used by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as combat airfields in the China-Burma-India Theater, located in the Indian Subcontinent while a part of the British Empire, today the nations of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Also, they supported Air Transport Command ...
"We were established because with World War II going on, they needed a place to train amphibious forces like the folks who landed on D-Day on Normandy 80 years ago," Navy public affairs officer ...
The 45th Surgical Hospital was a United States military hospital that saw service in the China-Burma-India theater in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Lineage [ edit ] Activated 7 June 1943 at Camp White, Oregon as the 45th Portable Surgical Hospital [1]
The return to Cambodia this week of 14 sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and unrest is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors, Cambodia’s culture ...