Burma Road

Burma Road

[
Ledo Road] The Burma Road is a road linking Burma (also called Myanmar) with China. Its terminals are Kunming, Yunnan and Lashio, Burma. When it was built, Burma was a British colony.

The road is convert|717|mi|km|0 long and runs through rough mountain country. [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9018186/Burma-Road Burma Road - Britannica Online Encyclopedia ] ] The sections from Kunming to the Burmese border were built by 200,000 Chinese laborers during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and completed by 1938. It had a role in World War II, when the British used the Burma Road to transport war materiel to China before Japan was at war with the British. Supplies would be landed at Rangoon (now Yangon) and moved by rail to Lashio, where the road started in Burma. After the Japanese overran Burma in 1942, the Allies began to fly supplies over the eastern end of the Himalayas and, under the command of General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, built the Ledo Road to connect Assam in India to the Burma Road through territory in the far north of Burma still in allied hands.

ee also

*Ledo Road

References

Further reading

*Jon Latimer, "Burma: The Forgotten War", John Murray, (2004). ISBN 0-7195-6576-6.

External links

* [http://ledoroad.home.comcast.net/~ledoroad/Ledo_Burma.html Burma Road photos]
* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jt5w3vqw_Bs WW2 - Campaigns in Burma] WW2 Burma Road video
* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5BYTuGNjbdM&feature=related WWII - Why We Fight - The Battle of China 1943] video 1
* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I3tDZ0Pntbk WWII - Why We Fight - The Battle of China 1943] video 2
* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GEEO6kbsnc4&eurl=http://www.danwei.org/featured_video/the_burma_road_to_yunnan.php Life-line to China Re-Opened, 1945/02/12 (1945)] "Universal Newsreel"
* [http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200310/200310_burma_1.html The Ghost Road] Mark Jenkins, "Outside Magazine", October 2003
* [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0311/feature5/ Blood, Sweat and Toil along the Burma Road] Donovan Webster, "National Geographic Magazine", November 2003
* [http://www.crossculturedtraveler.com/Archives/Apr2004/Burma.htm Burma Road on bicycle] Erin O'Brien, "The Cultured Traveler", Vol 6 April 2004
* [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FI23Ad06.html China to Europe via a new Burma road] David Fullbrook, "Asia Times", September 23, 2004
* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/south-east-asia/on-the-way-to-mandalay/2008/08/13/1218306954852.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 On the way to Mandalay] "The Sydney Morning Herald", August 16, 2008


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