The Campaign in BurmaPrepared for SOUTH-EAST ASIA COMMAND by the CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION
HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE · LONDON |
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LIST OF CONTENTS
Page I. The Retreat 1. The Bridge 7 2. The Shield of India 10 3. Burma Falls 17 4. Lean Days 26 5. Repulse in Arakan 31 6. Wingate's First Mission 34 II. Build Up 7. The Birth of S.E.A.C. 43 8. Second Attack from Arakan 47 9. The Battle of the Admin Box 56 10. Operation THURSDAY 66 11. The War of the Chindits 73 12. Stilwell's Road 79 13. The March on Delhi 89 III. The Road Back 14. The Stand at Kohima 99 15. Marching South 108 16. The Road to Mandalay 118 17. War in the Chaungs 125 18. The Fall of Rangoon 132 19. Journey's End 147 IV. Epilogue 20. Life-line Men 154 21. Reconquest of the Indian Ocean 167 The Maps 1. Burma the Road-Block 12-13 2. Retreat from Burma 19 3. The Three Fronts 28-29 4. The Southern Front 55 5. The Northern Front 74-75 6. The Central Front 90-91 7. The Reconquest of Burma 133
The book contains 93 photographs taken during the campaign. (For the pictures on pp. 22, 38-39, 40-41, 42, 80-81, 85, 86-87, the editors are indebted to Time and Life.) The Pictures
Of the various strengths in the field there were: Indian 340,000, British 100,000, West and East African 90,000, Chinese 65,000, American 10,000. 47 U.S. Air Squadrons took part and 51 British (including R.A.F., I.A.F., R.C.A.F., and R.A.A.F. units). The traditional composition of an Indian Division is two Indian Army brigades and one British Army brigade. The Men
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