Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
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| Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road | |||||||
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| Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II | |||||||
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| Japan, Imperial Japanese Army | United Kingdom, China, National Revolutionary Army | ||||||
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| Shojiro Iida | Lo Cho-ying, Joseph Stilwell | ||||||
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| Second Sino-Japanese War |
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| Major engagements in bold Mukden - Invasion of Manchuria -(Jiangqiao - Nenjiang Bridge - Chinchow - Harbin) - Shanghai (1932) - Operation Nekka - ( Rehe - Great Wall) - Suiyuan - Marco Polo Bridge - Beiping-Tianjin - Chahar - Shanghai (1937) (Sihang Warehouse) - Beiping-Hankou Railway - Tianjin-Pukou Railway - Taiyuan - (Pingxingguan) - Xinkou - Nanjing - Xuzhou- Taierzhuang - N.-E.Henan - (Lanfeng) - (Amoy) - Wuhan - Canton - (Hainan) - (Xiushui River) - Nanchang - Suixian-Zaoyang - (Swatow) - 1st Changsha - S.Guangxi- (Kunlun Pass) - Winter Offensive -(Wuyuan) -S.Henan - Zaoyang-Yichang - Hundred Regiments - Indochina Expedition - Shanggao - S.Shanxi - 2nd Changsha - 3rd Changsha - Yunnan-Burma Road-(Yenangyaung)- Zhejiang-Jiangxi - W.Hubei - N.Burma-W.Yunnan - Changde - C.Henan - 4th Changsha - Guilin-Liuzhou - W.Henan-N.Hubei - W.Hunan- 2nd Guangxi edit |
Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road (Mid March - Early June 1942) was the name of the Chinese intervention to aid their British allies in the 1942 Burma Campaign. Its forces were composed of the Fifth, Sixth and Sixty-sixth Armies under the command of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma, commanded by Lt. General Joseph Stilwell, Lt. General Lo Cho-ying was his Executive Officer.
Battles of Yunnan-Burma Road Campaign:
- Battle of Oktwin Mar. 20 - 23, 1942
- Battle of Toungoo Mar. 24-28, 1942
- Battle of Yedahe Apr. 5-8, 1942
- Battle of Szuwa River Apr. 10-16, 1942
- Battle of Pyinmana April 17-20, 1942
- Battle of Yenangyaung Apr. 17-19 1942
- Battle of Mawache and Yato Early April 1942
- Battle of Bawlake April 17,1942
- Battle of Hopong - Taunggyi April 20-24, 1942
- Battle of Loliem April 25, 1942
- Battle of Lashio April 29, 1942
- Battle of Hsenwe May 1, 1942
- Battle of Salween River May 6-31, 1942
- Battle of Hsipaw-Mogok Highway May 23, 1942
[edit] See also
- China Burma India Theater of World War II
- The 1942 Japanese advance to the Indian frontier in the Burma Campaign.
- Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
- X Force and Y Force for Chinese forces which fought in the Burma Campaign.
[edit] Further reading
- Orbat of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma: [1]
