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Burma Road

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | | Copyright

Burma Road, supply route 565 km. (350 mi.) long for Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist forces which connected Burma with China (see Map 19). Built by 200,000 Chinese labourers, it was completed in 1938, and ran from Kunming in Yunnan province to Wanting in China where it joined the road that ran from there, through Lashio, to Mandalay and Rangoon. After Japan had captured most of China's coastline in 1938 (see China incident), and then closed the Haiphong–Yunnan railway (see French Indo-China) in 1940—when Stalin also closed the one from the USSR—it was Chiang's principal supply route. Japanese diplomatic pressure on the British stopped it being used from July to October 1940; when it reopened they conspired with nationalist Burmans (see Thakin) to close it again, and they launched their invasion of Burma in December 1941 partly to ensure its closure. Allied supplies for China then had to be flown from India by an air route known as the Hump, until the Japanese were cleared from northern Burma and the Ledo Road was connected to it in January 1945. See also logistics.

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Burma Road

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Burma Road in China and Myanmar, extending from the railhead of Lashio, Myanmar, to Kunming, Yunnan prov., China. About 700 mi (1,130 km) long and constructed through rough mountain country, it was a remarkable engineering achievement. Undertaken by the Chinese after the start of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and completed in 1938, it was used to transport war supplies landed at Rangoon and shipped by railroad to Lashio. This traffic increased in importance to China after the Japanese took effective control of the Chinese coast and of Indochina. The Ledo Road (later called the Stilwell Road) from Ledo, India, into Myanmar was begun in Dec., 1942. In 1944 the Ledo Road reached Myitkyina and was joined to the Burma Road. Both roads have lost their former importance and are in a state of disrepair, but India began rebuilding its section of the Stilwell Road in 2007.

Bibliography: See study by L. Anders (1965).

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Burma Supply Road

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Burma Supply Road a route linking Lashio in Burma to Kunming in China, covering 717 miles (1,154 km). Completed in 1939, it was built by the Chinese in response to the Japanese occupation of the Chinese coast, to serve as a supply route to the interior.

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Burma Road

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Burma Road a route linking Lashi in Burma to Kunming in China. Completed in 1939, it was built by the Chinese in response to the Japanese occupation of the Chinese coast, to serve as a supply route to the interior.

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