| The heavily forested mountain passes of Burma were
a critical line of supply through which U.S. aid had been flowing to China for years. The Japanese,
therefore, decided after occupying Thailand to assign an army to conquer this British colony. They
were resisted by a combination of British, Indian, Chinese, and American troops. The campaign in
what became known as the China-Burma-India (C-B-I) Theater continued until August 4, 1945, when
the last remnants of Japan’s Burma Area Army retreated into Thailand.
BBC History: The Burma
Campaign
The Burma Campaign
Burma, 1942
India-Burma, 1942-1945
Central Burma, 1945
World War II:
Animated Maps
Japanese Invasion of Burma, 1942
Japanese
Centrifugal Offensive: Burma
Allied
Third Burma Campaign, 1943-1944
Allied
Third Burma Campaign, 1944-1945
Allied
Third Burma Campaign, 1945
The object of the savage
Japanese bombing was to create panic and drive the native population on to the roads and into
the jungle
Rutgers Oral
History Archives of World War II: Interview with Mark Addison
Rutgers
Oral History Archives of World War II: Interview with Carleton C. Dilatush
Rutgers
Oral History Archives of World War II: Interview with William Carl Heyer
Rutgers
Oral History Archives of World War II: Interview with George Wray Thomas
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