In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel ...

Predictions based on this unscientific and inhumane theory always proved accurate, Yasuo Obi, a second lieutenant of the Imperial Japanese Army who survived ... advancing from Burma (now Myanmar).

In May 1945, British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9 ...

The YR-4B’s rescue of four men from under the nose of the Japanese army showed what a helicopter could do. Harman stayed on in Burma to rescue injured soldiers. John Alison recalled that Air ...

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 ...

The balance of the book is an excellent account of the operations of the remarkably polyglot XIV Army (Britons were a very distinct minority in the ranks) in beating off the final Japanese offensive ...