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Indian troops, highly disciplined and trained, man a machine gun in a ruined building.

Asian Mainland!


09/01/1944	British troops capture Maungdaw in Burma.
13/01/1944	The Chinese strengthen their position in the Hukawng Valley in northern Burma.
24/01/1944	Chinese forces make further advances in the Hukawng Valley.
26/01/1944	The British launch their main attack on the Japanese ‘Golden Fortress’ in the Arakan, Burma.
30/01/1944	British attacks on the ‘Golden Fortress’ cease.


03/02/1944	The Japanese open their counter-offensive against the British in Arakan, Burma.
04/02/1944	Chinese advances in Hukawng Valley, continue while the Japanese offensive on Arakan front gains strength in order to push the British back into India.
05/02/1944	The ‘Chindits’ begin moving towards Indaw, 100 miles behind the Japanese lines in Burma.
06/02/1944	The Japanese pressure in Arakan forces the British to retreat.
13/02/1944	Another British counter-offensive begins in Arakan, Burma.
23/02/1944	Merrill’s ‘Marauders’ (US 5307th Composite Unit) begins Stilwell’s Sino-American advance into northern Burma.


01/03/1944	The 'Chindits' cross the Chindwin in Burma.
04/03/1944	Merrill’s ‘Marauders’ fight their first major action in Burma.
05/03/1944	Gliders and air-transport-borne 'Chindits' set up ‘Broadway’ a stronghold behind Japanese lines, North East of Indaw.
06/03/1944	Another 'Chindit' stronghold is established South of the Irrawaddy.
07/03/1944	The Japanese begin the Imphal-Kohima offensive from northern Burma into Assam, India.
11/03/1944	Some 12,000 Chindits are now behind Japanese lines in Burma. British forces capture Buthiduang on the Arakan front.
13/03/1944	British troops take the ‘Golden Fortress’ (Razabil) in Arakan, Burma.
14/03/1944	The British are forced to withdraw towards Imphal in Assam, while fighting a bitter rearguard action.
15/03/1944	The Japanese begin crossing the Chindwin for an advance against Kohima.
16/03/1944	The 'Chindit' ‘White City’ base at Mawla severs Japanese communications in northern Burma.
17/03/1944	The British blow up the Manipur bridge South of Imphal.
22/03/1944	British tanks rout a Japanese tank force at Tamu in India.
24/03/1944	Wingate, leader of the Chindits is killed in plane crash.
28/03/1944	Merrill’s ‘Marauders’ begin a 10-day defensive action against 1,300 Japanese at Nhpum Ga Ridge.
30/03/1944	The siege of Imphal begins, as the Japanese cut the road to the North.


04/04/1944	The 17th Indian Division reaches the Imphal plain after a 20-day fighting retreat. Japanese forces begin five weeks of attacks to reach Imphal from the South and begin their attack on Kohima, Assam.
09/04/1944	Fierce fighting across the District Commissioner’s tennis court at Kohima. The Japanese renew their struggle with the 17th Indian Division, South West of Imphal.
13/04/1944	British troops retake Nanshigum Hill.
16/04/1944	Three Japanese blow up a 300ft suspension bridge on the Silchar track.
18/04/1944	The first reinforcements for the British garrison at Kohima begin to arrive. Japanese forces launch a new offensive in central China.
23/04/1944	The last Japanese attack on Garrison Hill, Kohima is repulsed as the British ‘left hook’ begins its advance to the North.
24/04/1944	The British force the road to Kohima open.
25/04/1944	The British right hook South of Kohima begins.
26/04/1944	The 'Chindits' occupy Indaw.
27/04/1944	Merrill’s 'Marauders' begin a march on Myitkyina.
28/04/1944	Chinese forces retreat in central China.


04/05/1944	The British counter-attacks at Kohima, are repulsed by the Japanese.
07/05/1944	300,000 Japanese troops begin their preliminary moves prior to an offensive from the Canton and Hankow area in eastern China, with the aim of capturing allied airfields.
11/05/1944	72,000 Chinese begin an advance along the Burma Road.
12/05/1944	The Japanese attacks to the South East of Imphal are broken off.
13/05/1944	Jail Hill and other key Kohima features are recaptured by the British.
15/05/1944	A Japanese attack on Hunter’s Hill, North of Kohima is repulsed.
16/05/1944	The 17th Indian Division counter-attacks South of Imphal.
17/05/1944	Merrill’s 'Marauders' take Myitkyina airfield after a three-week, 100-mile, Jungle march.
23/05/1944	Chinese forces counter-attack in central China, and also make ground along the Burma Road.
26/05/1944	The Japanese launch a two-pronged attack from Canton and Hankow.
27/05/1944	Start of the monsoon season bogs down operations in Burma.


02/06/1944	The British 2nd Division begins its advance to relieve Imphal as the Japanese renew attacks on Bishenpur. The Chinese besiege Myitkyina, near the Chinese border in northern Burma.
03/06/1944	The Japanese rearguard at Kohima retreats, ending a 64 day battle.
04/06/1944	The first B29 (Superfortress) combat mission is made against the Bangkok railway.
07/06/1944	The British 2nd Division is now only 55 miles from Imphal.
18/06/1944	The British 2nd Division manages to advance 14 miles towards Imphal.
20/06/1944	The Japanese retreat from Imphal in Manipur towards the Burmese frontier.
22/06/1944	The British 2nd Division and 5th Indian Division meet on the Kohima-Imphal road, which is now completely clear of Japanese, lifting the 88-day siege of Imphal. The 'Chindits' begin an offensive on Mogaung in northern Burma.
26/06/1944	The Chindits take Mogaung, with Chinese help.


01/07/1944	The Japanese Imphal-Kohima survivors are encircled at Ukrul.
07/07/1944	China enters the seventh year of ‘The Double Seven War’, which started on 7/7/1937.
08/07/1944	The Japanese Fifteenth Army is ordered to retreat to the Chindwin after losing 53,000 men and 17,000 horses since the 7th March.
09/07/1944	All Japanese resistance in the Ukhrul area on India-Burma border crushed by the British.


03/08/1944	General Stilwell's troops, the NCAC, with the help of reinforcements, succeed in securing the town of Myitkyina in North Eastern Burma, but the 600 surviving Japanese are evacuated after holding out for 79 days.
05/08/1944	The British capture Tamu, across the Burmese border.
16/08/1944	Japanese resistance in Northeast India ends.
27/08/1944	The last Chindits are evacuated from behind Japanese lines in Burma.
28/08/1944	The British 36th Division takes Pinbaw, in northern Burma, during a monsoon advance from Mogaung.





15/10/1944	The British and Chinese begin an offensive from Myitkyina to Bhamo in northern Burma.
19/10/1944	The British capture an important Japanese supply depot at Mohnyin in Burma.


06/11/1944	The Chinese 22nd Division crosses the Irrawaddy in northern Burma.


02/12/1944	The British 11th East African Division takes Kalewa and advance to the Chindwin from India.
06/12/1944	The Japanese capture Tushan, South of the Nationalist capital of Chungking.
15/12/1944	The Chinese finally take Bhamo itself in northern Burma after the Japanese evacuate at night. The 19th Indian Division meets the British 36th Infantry Division at Indaw, making the first connected front in Burma.
18/12/1944	Eighty-four B29s bomb Hankow, which remains alight three days after.
27/12/1944	British troops reach Foul Point in Arakan.