It was during the dark days of the Japanese occupation in Burma. We had been married only two years and we were beginning to settle down. Ko Latt had a nice job, but our dreams of a bright and ...

The same jungles where Africans fought the Japanese ... invasion of Russia. It was ingenious for the Britons to use “sun hardened” Africans to fight for them in humid and tropical Burma ...

Beginning with their attack on Pearl Harbor in December, the Japanese unleashed an assault on other Pacific lands, including Malaya, the Phillippines, Thailand and Burma. Then, in June 1942 ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese victories of 1941, to the desperate battles for the Indian towns of Kohima and Imphal. Then follow the course of the Allies as ...

January: Japan invades Burma. Malaya and the Solomon ... American naval forces destroy three Japanese aircraft carriers and 450 aircraft during the invasion of Saipan. July: Americans take Saipan ...