“They were a ragged line of 114 tired and hungry people – Americans, British, Indians, and Burmese; civilians and soldiers alike – and they were now on the run from several thousand Japanese troops that were clawing through the jungle after them, only fifteen or twenty miles behind. The year was 1942. It was May, [...]
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Stilwell Leads Final Exodus From Burma
Posted in China/Burma/India, World War II (1939-1945), tagged 1942, Burma, General Joseph Stilwell, Imphal, India on May 7 | Leave a Comment »