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  partof Pacific War ( World War II )
  caption Geography Of Burma
  date January 1942 - July 1945
  place Burma
  result Allied victory
  combatant1 United Kingdom <br> Republic Of China <br>
  combatant2 <br> Azad Hind ( INA )<br> Burma National Army
  commander1 Louis Mountbatten <br> William Slim <br> Chiang Kai-Shek <br> Joseph Stilwell <br> Aung San (from 1944)
  commander2 Masakazu Kawabe <br> Hyotaro Kimura <br> Renya Mutaguchi <br> Subhash Chandra Bose <br> Aung San (until 1944)
  strength1 1942 60,000 <br> 1942 95,000
  strength2 1942 80,000
  casualties1 1942 13,000 <br> 1942
  casualties2 1942 4,500 <br> <br> Total C144,000 Japenese Army killed


The Burma Campaign was a campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II . It was fought primarily between British Empire , Chinese , and American forces against the Empire Of Japan , the Burmese Independence Army and the Indian National Army . British Empire forces (often simply referred to as "British") were drawn from the United Kingdom, British India, and other parts of the empire.

A notable feature of the campaign was the use of air transport to move troops and to supply them. Large numbers of American transport aircraft were in the region to deliver Materiel to China and, at times, these were diverted to sustain allied offensives in Burma, thus heavily tipping the regional logistical advantage to the allies' favour.


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