Burma Road

The Burma Road is a road linking Burma (also called Myanmar) with China. Its terminals are Kunming and Lashio, Burma. When it was built, Burma was a British colony. Image File history File links Burma_Road_USAF.jpg‎ File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Kunming (Chinese: 昆明; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kun-ming) is the capital of Yunnan province, China. ... Lashio is the capital of Shan, Myanmar. ...

Allied lines of communication in Southeast Asia (1942–43). The Burma Road is shown at far right.

The road is about 1,130 kilometres long and runs through rough mountain country. The sections from Kunming to the Burmese border were built by 200,000 Chinese laborers during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and completed by 1938. It had a role in World War II, where the British used the Burma Road to transport war materiel to China before Japan was at war with the British. Supplies would be landed at Rangoon and moved by rail to Lashio, where the road started in Burma. After the Japanese overran Burma in 1942, the Allies began to fly supplies over the eastern end of the Himalaya mountains and, under the command of General Stillwell, built the Ledo Road to connect Assam in India to the Burma Road through territory in the far north of Burma still in allied hands. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1260x970, 176 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Burma Road Ledo Road ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1260x970, 176 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Burma Road Ledo Road ... Combatants Republic of China Empire of Japan Commanders Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-Tung, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Zhu De, He Yingqin Hideki Tojo, Matsui Iwane, Jiro Minami, Kesago Nakajima, Toshizo Nishio, Yasuji Okamura. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Materiel (from the French for material) is the equipment and supplies in Military and commercial supply chain management. ... Yangôn, formerly Rangoon, population 4,504,000 (2001), is the capital of Myanmar. ... Lashio is the capital of Shan, Myanmar. ... The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew from India to China to resupply the Flying Tigers and the Chinese Government of Chiang Kai-shek. ... Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army four-star general best-known for his service in China. ... The Ledo Road was built during World War II so that the Western Allies could continue to supply the Chinese after the Japanese cut the Burma Road. ... Assam   (Assamese: অসম Ôxôm) is a northeastern state of India with its capital at Dispur - now a part of Guwahati. ...

Other

• During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Israeli forces in the Jerusalem front, headed by general Mickey Marcus, built a make-shift road to Jerusalem that was called the "Burma Road" after its strategic predecessor. At that time, the Jordanians surrounded Jerusalem and blocked all roads to make it a siege. Jews in Jerusalem were suffering, Israelis who were trying to come in to Jerusalem to give the people of Jerusalem food and weapons got shot at and lost a lot of lives. The Israelis were trying to find a new way to get in to Jerusalem, a secret way that the enemy would not know about. This road was completed on the 10th of June 1948 and broke the siege, held by the Jordanians, on Jewish military forces and civil population in Jerusalem. ^[1]

• Burma Road is also a nickname for the now closed section of railway line in Ireland linking Collooney to Claremorris (part of the route now known as the Western Railway Corridor). It gained this name due to the hilly, boggy conditions through which the line was built. ^[2]

• Burma road is also a name given to rice pudding by the British Army, origins are from the Army serving in India. ^[3]

• Burma road is also a name given to the main passage way, Deck 3, on former Mackenzie Class ships (HMCS Mackenzie (261), Saskatchewan (262), Yukon (263) and Qu'Appelle (264)) that served in the Canadian Navy until the late 1990s. The passage way connected all parts of the ship and was used to "store" the ship with supplies. ^{[citation needed]}

• Burma Road in Nassau, Bahamas, was the scene of rioting in 1942, when workers building an airport demonstrated for better pay and conditions. ^[4] This was the inspiration for Ronnie Butler's 1967 song Burma Road.^[5]

Combatants  Israel Egypt Syria Transjordan  Lebanon Saudi Arabia Iraq Holy War Army Arab Liberation Army Commanders Yaakov Dori Yigael Yadin Glubb Pasha Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni† Hasan Salama Fawzi al-Qawuqji Strength 29,677 initially–108,300 by December 1948 Egypt: 10,000 initially rising to 20,000 Iraq... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Panoramic view from Mt. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Collooney (Cúil Mhuine in Irish) is a town in County Sligo, Ireland. ... Claremorris (Clár Clainne Mhuiris in Irish) is a town in County Mayo in the west of Ireland. ... Map of the West of Ireland, showing the Western Rail Corridor and ex-GSWR line south of Limerick in green, other ex-MGWR lines are in red. ... Map of the Bahamas Nassau is the capital city of the Bahamas. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

References

1. ^ Rosenbloom, Michael (December 2001). The Road to Jerusalem. Tales of Survival. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
2. ^ Swinford, Michael Fox. The Other Burma Road. WestOnTrack History. Retrieved on 2006-11-16.
3. ^ British Empire: Glossary. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
4. ^ "'The Burma Road Riot' 1-2 June, 1942", The Nassau Guardian, January 19, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
5. ^ Burma Road. Bahama Island Music. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.

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Further reading

• Quattlebaum, Charles B. (Autumn 1944). "Military Highways". Military Affairs 8 (3): 225-238. DOI:10.2307/1983169.