~*~ Burma Road ~*~ The Burma Road is the road linking Burma to China! Its terminals are Kunming, Yunnan, and Lashio, Burma. This road runs 717 miles long. The sections from Kunming to the Burmese border were built by some 200,000 Chinese laborers during the Second Japanese War in 1937. It was completed in 1938. It's use in WWII was when the British troops used the Burma Road to take war materials to China before Japan was at war with the British. After the Japanese overran Burma in 1942, the Allies were forced to supply Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalist Chinese by air. They flew these supplies from airfields in India over the east end of the Himalayas. British forces were given the task of recapturing Burma and reopening land communication with China. Indian, British, Chinese, and American forces worked together to keep Japanese forces from capturing Assam, and recaptured northern Burma. This this area, they built a new road called the "Ledo Road", which went from Ledo Assam, through Myitkina and joined with the old Burma Road at Wandingzhen, Yunna, China. http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200310/200310_burma_1.html |
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