One of the main reasons the Burma Campaign was formed was to grant independence back into Burma and hold back the Japanese intruders that had thought overtaking Burma would be a big step in winning WW2, but it wasn’t easy for the Jap’s as they weren’t used to this jungle war, one of the most

“This Japanese seemed unstoppable”, said General Vinegar Joe Stilwell with his troops as they walked through the jungles of Burma for a long 29 days of long exhausting trekking through the jungles in Chindwin. They crossed strong streams, climbed enormous mountains and finally made their way to and escaped to Imphal.

The loss of Burma was a serious blow to the allies. This failure was all because of the unprepared start of the war, and the Japanese as they kept pushing and pushing into Burma.

With Rangoon threatened, chief of staff for the British campaign in Burma had to destroy all crossing Japanese material as possible crossing the Burmese border which included 900 trucks, 5000,000 tires, 1,000 blankets and sheets and more than a ton of mixed items. The British had to transfer as much material as they could into Rangoon as the Japanese approached rapidly. This transfer included 300 British made Bren guns with 3 million rounds of ammunition, 1,000 machine guns with 180,000 rounds of ammunition, 260 jeeps, 683 trucks and 100 field telephones. Over 19,000 tins of left over material remained in Rangoon when it fell to the Japanese on the 8th of March.

While Kohima was being attacked, Imphal valley was completed surrounded in all directions by Japanese troops at the hilltops with heavy artillery. Two Burmese villagers have said that two Japanese soldiers disguised themselves as local workers and stole an aircraft from the Palel airstrip. Below Imphal at Bishenpur, the Japanese 33rd division held against the 17th division as the fighting wasn’t getting better for either side, soldiers kept falling and dying as each side grew weaker and weaker. The Imphal siege was as hard for the British as the Japanese, 50,00 of Japans best soldiers had lost their lives.

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