Download or read book The Forgotten Theater of WWII of China Burma India written by Junyi Han and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China-Burma-India is one of the most forgotten theaters of World War 2.As the United States entered the war after Pearl Harbor, it looked to China as a source of manpower as well as a base for bombers and a way to eventually invade Japan. Meanwhile, the Chinese Nationalist (KMT) leader, Chiang Kai Shek looked to Burma Road for supply for the war through the Land-Lease policy with the United States. As the Japanese occupied Southeast Asia after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Burma became an important theater for the Pacific Asia War.As World War II raged on, it would bring numerous bloody battles to the cities and jungles of Burma. Burma, present-day Myanmar, was a British colony located in the Pacific during WWII. The command structure of Burma was confusing and was changing rapidly during the time. The defense of Burma had been the responsibility of the Indian government until 1937. Then from 1937 until September 1939, the Burmese government was in charge, and from September 1939, The Chiefs-of-staff in London decided to take control in operations while the Burmese government retained administration and financial control. In November 1940, as the British were busy with the European theater of war, the control of the operations was given to the Far East Command in Singapore while the administrative control was split between the War Office and the Burmese government. On December 12, 1941, during the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia, the control was given back to the commander-in-chief in India since the British were now fighting the European theater with the Nazis. And by December 30th, two weeks after the first Japanese troops entered the country, the control was given back to General Wavell's South-West Pacific Command. Similar to his American counterpart, MacArthur's move to retreat to Australia, General Wavell retreated to India but retained command of the battle in Burma.The Japanese, British, Americans, and Chinese each had their own motivations and policies in the Pacific that would ultimately lead to the involvement of Burma in the Pacific War.
Download or read book The Forgotten Theater in World War II written by Norman F. Richard and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Burma Road written by Donovan Webster and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II's outset, closing all of China's seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a 700-mile overland route -- the Burma Road -- from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But when Burma fell in 1942, the Burma Road was severed. As the first step of the Allied offensive toward Japan, American general Joseph Stilwell reopened it, while, at the same time, keeping China supplied by air-lift from India and simultaneously driving the Japanese out of Burma. From the breathtaking adventures of the American "Hump" pilots who flew hair-raising missions over the Himalayas to make food-drops in China to the true story of the mission that inspired the famous film The Bridge on the River Kwai, to the grueling jungle operations of Merrill's Marauders and the British Chindit Brigades, The Burma Road vividly re-creates the sprawling, sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and still largely unknown stories of one of the greatest chapters of World War II.
Download or read book A Short History and Events of China Burma India CBI Before and During World War II written by Rudolph F. Gaum and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China Burma India Theater Stilwell s Command Problems written by Charles F. Romanus and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1956 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Søgeord: Y-Force; Kinesiske Hær; Kina; Wheeler, R.A.; Yu Fei-peng; Wavell; Japan, Japanske Styrker; US War Department; General Marshall; Stimson, H.L.; Trident; Krigshjælp; SEAC; Soong, T.V.; Somervell, B.B.; SOS, Services of Supply; Rangoon; Mountbatten; Magruder, J.; Lo Cho-ying; Ledo Road; MacArthur; McCloy, J.J.; Ho Ying-chin; Guerrillakrig; Burma Campaign; Currie, L.; CEF; Churchill; Chennault, C.L.; Wingate; Bissel, C.L.; Arnold, H.H.; Alexander, H.
Download or read book The Allied Resupply Effort in the China Burma India Theater During World War II written by Leo J. Daugherty III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume takes an in-depth look at the situation the Allies faced in China, India and Burma exploring the realities of the politic-laden campaign waged in this 'forgotten theatre' during World War II. The main body of the work consists of the personal accounts of six individuals who served as part of the re-supply effort"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book MAGIC and ULTRA in the China Burma India Theater written by Stephen K. Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where I Came In in China Burma India written by Robert James Kadel and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From China Burma India to the Kwai written by William Henderson (Lt. Col.) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the forming and training of a WWII B-24 Liberator Crew and their combat missions in the "unknown and forgotten" theater of war, the China Bruma India (CBI) theater. Shuffled between China and India by politics, they hauled gasoline in four bomb bay tanks over the Himalayan "hump" and because they had defensive guns, into Japanese surrounded airfields east of Luliang, China. These missions proved to be as harrowing as their bombing missions. Resuming their bombing missions. Resumming their bombing mission in early 1945, they destroyed the wooden bridge that the Tahis label, Bridge Over the River Kwai, of movie fame. Shot to pieces on this mission, they crashed on a Burma beach, then resumed their tour. With the co-pilot seriously wounded and the nose wheel crippled, they set down on a steel mat fighter aircraft strip after "dive bombing" with a B-24. they survived several other close encounters but through fate and quick action on their own, survived to war's end.
Download or read book A Small Slice of World War II Life in the forgotten China Burma India Theatre written by Teddy Thorbjorn Dahl and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The China Burma India Campaign 1931 1945 written by Eugene L. Rasor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-03-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The China-Burma-India campaign of the Asian/Pacific war of World War II was the most complex, if not the most controversial, theater of the entire war. Guerrilla warfare, commando and special intelligence operations, and air tactics originated here. The literature is extensive and this book provides an evaluative survey of that vast literature. A comprehensive compilation of some 1,500 titles, the work includes a narrative historiographical overview and an annotated bibliography of the titles covered in the historiographical section. Following an introductory historical essay and a chronology, the historiographical narrative covers land, water, underwater, air, and combined operations, intelligence matters, diplomacy, and logistics and supply. It also examines the memoirs, diaries, autobiographies, and biographies of the personnel involved. Such cultural topics as journalism, fiction, film, and art are analyzed, and existing gaps in the literature are looked at. The bibliography provides both descriptive and evaluative annotations.
Download or read book The China Burma India Theater written by Charles F. Romanus and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1956-12 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of General Stilwell's experiences in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater between October 1943 and his recall in October 1944. Chronicles the seizure of Myitkyina in Burma and the Salween River fighting in China. Includes tables, charts, maps, illustrations, bibliographical note, glossaries, and index.
Download or read book China Burma India Theater written by Charles F. Romanus and published by Department of the Army. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Center of Military History Publication 9 3. United States Army in World War 2. Carrying the narrative from General Wedemeyer's assumption of command to the end of the war, this volume concludes with Americansstill working to improve the Chinese Army while attempting to fly in sufficient supplies from India and Burma.
Download or read book China Burma India Theater written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competing Empires in Burma written by Quin Cho and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALTHOUGH VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN IN THE WEST, the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater provided the backdrop for some of the most operationally complex, logistically challenging, and politically intriguing operations in World War II. This chronicle excavates the forgotten story of the Allies' only land-based campaign in the Pacific that lasted from late 1941 to the end of the Second World War. It also tells the story of the war within the war, and how Burmese, Indian, and other Asian subjects were fighting in a war against colonialism as well as in a "total war" between competing empires represented by Allied and Axis powers.Following the catalyst of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, Japan launched its invasion of China and the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese had begun. China became isolated from outside aid due to Japanese naval supremacy and its seizure of Chinese ports. As of late 1941, the Burma Road was China's only means of securing outside aid.While Japan had mostly isolated China, its low stockpile of critical resources meant that it needed to seize resource-rich Southeast Asian colonies (particularly for rubber, tin, and oil) to continue the Second Sino-Japanese War. Consequently, Japan decided to initiate the "Strike South Campaign" ("Nanshin-ron"), which culminated in the seizure of most of Burma by May 1942.In considerable operational detail, this chronicle captures not only the logistical nightmare of fighting in the CBI theater but also the impossible dilemma confronted by colonial subjects in Asia during an inescapable global conflict. Should they trade a western colonial power for a Japanese version? Should the Burmese National Army betray Japan and ally with the British and Allied forces? Could Japan be trusted to "Free India" within a "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" as the India National Army hoped? This fascinating historical chapter is helpful to understand the postwar independence movements that would follow as well as contemporary events unfolding throughout Asia.
Download or read book World War II Memories of the China Burma India Theater written by Clifton C. Cheesewright and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time Runs Out in CBI written by Charles F. Romanus and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
