Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese ... The longest British and Commonwealth Campaign of World War Two was over.

The Japanese are advancing in China, and in Burma the Allied drive for Rangoon continues. The Battle for the German capital rages on all week, as the Soviets get ever closer to the Reich ...

a Burmese partner. Technically, an alien may qualify for Burmese citizenship if he had five years’ continuous residence in Burma prior to World War II, and many Indians have applied, but ...

served as a signaller in the Second World War and played an important part in keeping his “wireless village” on the air in the Burma Campaign. In November 1944, Newland was at 14th Army HQ at ...

Battle of the Java Se in Indonesia: Japan destroys Dutch-American naval force. March: Japan takes Indonesia and the Dutch East Indies; Rangoon, Burma falls. Japan invades New Guinea. MacArthur ...

A SECOND World War Burma Star veteran, will be getting a special surprise when he reaches his 100th birthday on December 3. At Dunkirk Memorial House near Taunton, the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of ...