CONSIDERING the size and importance of the Burma campaign, it has had very little public attention. Events in Burma have been overshadowed by the climax of the war against Germany and the great ...

and their mules into the jungles of Burma. A squadron of 30 P-51A fighters and 13 B-25 Mitchell bombers would be the artillery for the ground troops; a light airplane force of 100 Stinson L-5 ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese victories of 1941, to the desperate battles for the Indian towns of Kohima and Imphal. Then follow the course of the Allies as ...

Cicely Ball was among the last surviving veterans of the Allies' campaign in Burma, now Myanmar, during the conflict. Mrs Ball, who served in the Royal Air Force and the Army, passed away in early ...

Ghanaian veteran Private Joseph Hammond, who is now 95 years old, reflects on the Burma Campaign of World War Two. He was one of 100,000 Africans who fought for the British Army against the Japanese.

A volume in the Kansas series “Modern War Studies”, The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army is essential reading for anyone interested in the Asia-Pacific war, the ...