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 ...

War in Philippines begins with Japanese air ... The first kamikaze air attacks occur during this battle. November: British forces in Burma begin an offensive. December: Philippines campaign ...

LITTLE more than a year ago a most beautifully illustrated, interesting volume on “Burma,” by Max and Bertha Ferrars, appeared, which has been most favourably received. And now we have a ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid ... surrendered on 14 August 1945. The longest British and Commonwealth Campaign of World War Two was over.

The British colonized Burma in a series of three wars beginning ... camps in India and Pakistan whence they had fled during the war, were unable to return; as for those who did manage to return ...

The British used cheap Indian labor to exploit ... citizenship if he had five years’ continuous residence in Burma prior to World War II, and many Indians have applied, but frequently their ...

Having left school aged 16, he retrained after the war as a physicist and researched anaesthetic machines for the British Oxygen Company ... on the air in the Burma Campaign.

A “remarkable” Second World War veteran will be getting a special ... and played an active part in both the Royal British Legion and Burma Star Association. Following falls, and the ...

This film records the Japanese militarys efforts to capture the Burma Roadone of the major supply lines to China from the British beginning in December 1941 The film ends with the fall of Mandalay ...