Bombardier Tom Jones was called up to serve in the Royal Artillery as the war broke out in 1939 - when he was aged just 17.

Mountaineer Joe Simpson travels to Myanmar to retrace the steps of his father, who fought behind Japanese lines in WWII, facing conditions which made this one of the toughest campaigns of the war.

Among the many individual battles that will be commemorated this year on the anniversary of Allied victories in WW2, are those of the brutal campaign against the Japanese in Burma (as Myanmar was ...

World War aviator flew a plane which was on fire for 500 miles while trying to put it out with flasks of tea. Wing Commander Clive Beadon was dive-bombing the Burma-Siam railway from just 150ft when ...

In the trailer for the Australian series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Jacob Elordi plays a soldier held captive as a ...

a Burmese partner. Technically, an alien may qualify for Burmese citizenship if he had five years’ continuous residence in Burma prior to World War II, and many Indians have applied, but ...

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 ...

Rangoon, March 5: H.E. the Governor unveiled the Burma War Memorial this evening in the presence of an influential gathering. The memorial is in the form of an obelisk about fifty feet high ...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North trailer reveals Jacob Elordi as a reluctant hero in Prime Video's sweeping World War II ...

Engage with civil society actors inside and outside Burma, including those outside the UN system, who can help monitor the situation and who can provide advice on ways forward. Immediately ...

During WWII, Japan fought in China and Burma – today, Myanmar – against Allied forces, and tried to invade British-ruled India, of which Bangladesh was then a part.