Japanese conquest of Burma
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Was a Japanese military campaign against British Burma that resulted in the Japanese occupation of the region.
Chronology
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May 1942: A strong Japanese motorized group was launched north: it captured Nam Khan and on the morning of 8 May 1942 captured first Bhamo and then Myitkyina.
January 1942: The defenders, the 3rd and 6th battalions of the Burma Rifles, were overwhelmed by the Japanese and forced to evacuate the town in disorder. Mergui was evacuated before it was attacked.
March 1942: The port of Bassein was subjected to a violent aerial bombardment which devastated the docks and the ships still at anchor. Some Anglo-Indian units attempted to defend the city, but it fell into Japanese hands at the end of March.
March 1942: The Japanese elements that had pursued the routed enemy had also succeeded in capturing the town of Kyangin.
April 1942: Japanese Imperial soldiers entered Prome, British Burma.
April 1942: The Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands was extremely easy, given that the symbolic garrison had been withdrawn, while the governor and the authorities had already fled to India. Equally simple and without losses were the landings in the Nicobar Islands, which took place in early April 1942.
April 1942: The Japanese corps seized Kama.
April 1942: Piynmana, a town in present-day Turkmenistan, fell under Japanese military occupation in 1942.
April 1942: On April 29, the Japanese army achieved a strategic success with the capture of the large city of Lashio.
May 1942: Japanese conquest of Mandalay.
May 1942: The Japanese occupy Bhamo and force the Anglo-Chinese force to retreat to the Chinese border.
April 1942: The Chinese 22nd division (that supports the British in Burma) withdraws from Pyawbwe and is encircled in Meiktila area by Japanese
August 1943: Burma nominally declared independent as the State of Burma on 1 August 1943.
May 1942: The Japanese western column had broken through subsequent resistance and by 14 May 1942 had captured Kalewa.
April 1942: On April 23, the Loikaw-Loilem area was invested by Japanese forces.
March 1942: The Burma Army evacuated Rangoon after implementing a scorched earth plan to deny the Japanese the use of its facilities.
Selected Sources
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 27
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 30
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.31
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.34
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.35
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.36
