Kalaymyo

Kalaymyo (Kalemyo) is a town in the Chin State of Burma. Upstream from Mandalay and Monywa on the Chindwin River, the town is gaining importance as a staging point for trade between Burma and India (Kalaymyo is about 150 km from the Burma-India border at Tamu).

During the Second World War, Kalaymyo was an important regroup point for the British during their retreat from Burma in 1942 because of the relatively easier access to India along the Manipur River (the alternative was to march through malarial forests from Kalewa to Tamu. cite book | first=William | last=Slim | year=1961 | title=Defeat into Victory | id= | publisher = David McKay | location = New York | id = LCCN|61|0|17449]

There is an airport at Kalaymyo, an extension of a British built Second World War airstrip that was used to ferry troops and supplies into Burma during the British reconquest of Burma in 1945.

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