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World-changing1941 – 1942 · 1 year

Japanese conquest of Burma

Rangoon · Mandalay · Sittang

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Japanese 15th Army drove the British out of Burma in the longest retreat in British military history.

Belligerents3

  • Empire of Japan
  • British Burma
  • Burma Independence Army

ON THE MAPEmpire of Japan (1937)

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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