Burma Campaign
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Was the battle between the Japanese and British forces in Burma, during World War II.
Chronology
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June 1944: The 77th Brigade under Brigadier Michael Calvert, later assisted by Chinese forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, captured the town of Mogaung from the occupying forces of Imperial Japan.
August 1944: Siege of Lichfield.
May 1944: British conquest of Ritpong area.
Was a Japanese military campaign against British Burma that resulted in the Japanese occupation of the region.
April 1942: The Japanese corps seized Kama.
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.
March 1942: The Japanese elements that had pursued the routed enemy had also succeeded in capturing the town of Kyangin.
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.
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1942: The Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands was extremely easy, given that the symbolic garrison had been withdrawn, while the governor and the authorities had already fled to India.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: 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.
Was the first tentative Allied attack into Burma, following the Japanese conquest of Burma earlier in 1942, during the Second World War.
April 1943: British units in Burma retreated back almost to the Indian frontier.
December 1942: The 14th Indian Division advanced to Rathedaung and Donbaik.
Was an Allied offensive in Arakan against the Japanese occupation of Burma, during World War II.
January 1944: The 5th Indian Division captured the small port of Maungdaw.
Was the Japanese offensive launched in March 1944 against forces of the British Empire in the northeast Indian regions of Manipur and the Naga Hills.
April 1944: Japanese advance up to Kohima.
March 1944: Japanese advance up to Imphal.
June 1944: Battle of Kohima. The Japanese, reduced in many cases to a rabble, fell back to the Chindwin.
July 1944: The Battle of Imphal took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in northeast India from March until July 1944. The Japanese, reduced in many cases to a rabble, fell back to the Chindwin.
Was an Allied offensive in Burma against the Japanese occupation, during World War II.
March 1945: At Mandalay, British forces enter Fort Dufferin, finding that Japanese forces had withdrawn.
January 1945: Two British African divisions converged on Myohaung near the mouth of the Kaladan River, cutting the supply lines of the Japanese troops in the Mayu Peninsula.
February 1945: The Indian 20th Division had a hard battle to take Monywa.
March 1945: The Sikhs occupied Pagan without resistance.
March 1945: British forces assault Meiktila.
March 1945: Myingyan was captured by British forces after four days' fighting from 18 to 22 March.
April 1945: The British Fourteenth Armyseized Pyinmana. The town and bridge were captured before the Japanese forces could mount a defense.
April 1945: British Indian Division reached the town of Toungoo.
May 1945: The 26th Indian Division started to land as the monsoon began and took over Rangoon, which had seen an orgy of looting and lawlessness since the Japanese had left.
February 1945: During January, the Indian 19th Division and British 2nd Division cleared Shwebo.
December 1944: Bhamo was liberated on 15 December.
February 1945: Battle of Ramree Island: it lasted for six weeks after the initial landings on 21 January by the 26th Indian Division before the survivors of the small but tenacious Japanese garrison withdrew from the island.
January 1945: British forces cleared the Myebon Peninsula.
January 1945: The Japanese evacuated Akyab Island on 31 December 1944.
February 1945: British forces reached Taungtha, halfway to Meiktila, by 24 February.
March 1945: British forces reached Lashio, which was captured on 7 March.
Selected Sources
Military Intelligence Division - U.S. War Department (1945): Merrill's Marauders (February-May 1944), Washington D.C (U.S.A.), p. 101
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 219
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. 446
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 511
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.185
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.354
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.36
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.417
