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Burma Road
The 17th Indian Division in Burma: Disaster on the Sittang
By Marc D. BernsteinThe Japanese looked unstoppable. Two divisions of the 15th Army had crossed from Thailand into Burma in mid-January 1942, bent on capturing Rangoon before the British could land reinforcements and block the seizing of the Burma Road. Read more