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- 240 pages
- 250 photos & illustrations
- 7.5 wide x 9.5 tall
Diamond. General Stilwell's ad hoc force of Merrill's Marauders American-trained Chinese divisions Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate's Chindits conducted a northern Burmese offensive that led to the coup de main seizure of Myitkyina's airfield in May 1944. In August 1944 after a protracted siege Myitkyina town on the Irrawaddy River fell to the Allies. At the same time elements of General Slim's 14th Army were mounting a defense of northeastern India at Imphal and Kohima against Imperial Japan's 15th Army; Operation U-Go led by General Mutaguchi from March to July 1944. Thereafter the Allies began two major campaigns. First the northern Burmese Sino-American offensive re-opened the land supply route to China via a newly-built Burma Road which replaced the American Air Transport Command's ‘Hump' airlift that had kept Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese forces supplied. The second offensive was by General Bill Slim's multi-national British 14th Army under which advanced south-east through the Arakan. The ‘Forgotten Army' eventually re-occupied Mandalay and Rangoon. These legendary campaigns are superbly described in words and images in this fine addition to the Images of War series.
