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Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
Part of theBurma campaign, theSouth-East Asian theatre of World War II, theSecond Sino-Japanese War and thePacific Theater ofWorld War II
Date (1942-03-18) (1942-07-12)March 18 – July 12, 1942 (3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days) Location Burma andYunnan province in theRepublic of China Result Axis victory
Belligerents
Axis Japan Thailand	Allies China United Kingdom Air Support: United States
Commanders and leaders
Shōjirō Iida Shozo Sakurai Masao Watanabe Takeshi Koga Yūzō Matsuyama Yutaka Hiroshi C.R. Seriroengrit	Luo Zhuoying Sun Li Jen Liu Fangwu Dai Anlan † Liao Yaoxiang James Scott David Tennant Cowan John Anstice William Slim Joseph Stilwell Claire Lee Chennault
Units involved
33rd Division 55th Division 56th Division Phayap Army	5th corps 6th corps 66th corps
Strength
35,000	Western Claim : 95,000[1] Chinese Claim : 103,000[2]
Casualties and losses
Unknown	[3][a] : 13,071 killed 7,971 wounded 9,586 missing 145 killed or wounded 130 dead from diseases
^ Mostly not including losses during the retreat into China and India Not including the losses of the New 29th Division The number of deaths from diseases were reported only by the New 38th Division

Battle ofYunnan-Burma Road (18 March – 24 May 1942;Chinese:滇緬路戰役) was the name of the Chinese intervention to aid their British allies in the1942 Burma Campaign. Its forces were composed of the Fifth, Sixth and Sixty-sixth Army under the command of theChinese Expeditionary Force in Burma, commanded by Lt. GeneralJoseph Stilwell, Lt. GeneralLuo Zhuoying was his executive officer.

In February 1942, General Lo Cho-ying directed 5th Army to move from western Yunnan to the vicinity ofToungoo and further south inBurma. Advanced elements of the200th Division of 5th Army arrived at Toungoo on March 8, 1942, and took over defensive positions from the British forces. The 6th Army was directed to move fromKunming to the Burma–Thai border. Its leading elements reachedMawchi,Mong Pan andMong Ton in mid March. The 66th Army later arrived inLashio andMandalay as a reserve and to assist the British forces in their operations.

• Battle of Tachiao March 18–19, 1942
• Battle of Oktwin March 20–23, 1942, in vicinity ofOktwin
• Battle of Toungoo March 24–30, 1942, in and aroundTaungoo
• Battle of Yedashe April 5–8, 1942, in vicinity ofYedashe
• Battle of Szuwa River April 10–16, 1942, atSzuwa River northwest of Yedashe
• Battle of Mawchi and Bato Early April 1942, in vicinity ofMawchi
• Battle of Bawlake April 17, 1942, in vicinity ofBawlakhe
• Battle of Yenangyaung April 17–19, 1942
• Battle of Pyinmana April 17–20, 1942, in vicinity ofPyinmana
• Battle of Loikaw April 20, 1942, in vicinity ofLoikaw
• Battle of Hopong-Taunggyi April 20–24, 1942, in vicinity ofHopong andTaunggyi
• Battle of Loilem April 25, 1942, in vicinity ofLoilem
• Battle of Lashio April 29, 1942, in vicinity ofLashio
• Battle of Hsenwe May 1, 1942
• Battle of Salween River May 6–31, 1942
• Battle of Hsipaw-Mogok Highway May 23, 1942

• China Burma India Theater of World War II (CBI)
• The 1942Japanese advance to the Indian frontier in the Burma Campaign
• Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
• X Force andY Force for Chinese forces which fought in the Burma Campaign

• Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai,History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China.
• Jon Latimer,Burma: The Forgotten War, London: John Murray, 2004.
• Orbat of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma – 1942
• Japanese forces in Burma, The 1942 Campaign
• 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 (China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations)
  • Author : Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang
  • Press : Jiangsu People's Publishing House
  • Date published : 2005-07-01
  • ISBN 7-214-03034-9
  • 第八部分：太平洋战争爆发后的中国抗战中国远征军入缅援英作战 1 (The Chinese Expeditionary Force enters Burma to help England to fight)

• Map of Burma in World War II Showing railroads, roads and tracks.
• Topographic Maps of the battlefield area
  • Topographic Map NE 47-1 Pyinmana, for Battles of Yedashe, Szuwa River, Bawlake, Pyinmana and Loikaw
  • Topographic Map NE 47-5 Toungoo, for Battles of Taicho, Oktwin, Taungoo and Mawchi
  • Topographic Map NE 47-13 Yamethin, for Battle of Hopong - Taunggyi
  • Topographic Map NF 47-14 Mong Pan, for Battle of Loilem.
  • Topographic Map NF 47-6, for Battle of Lashio.
  • Topographic Map NF 47-5 Maymyo, for Battle of Hsipaw-Mogok Highway
• Japanese Map of the Battle of Toungoo, Axis History Forum
• Axis History Forum: Chinese 200th Division: descriptions of actions needed! Discussion and map of the battle of Toungoo and the actions leading up to it and subsequent battles of the campaign.
• Map of Burma in World War II Showing rails, roads and tracks.
• 1944 aerial photograph of Toungoo

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• Battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War
• Japanese invasion of Burma
• 1942 in Japan
• Military history of Yunnan
• 1942 in Burma
• Land battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom
• March 1942
• April 1942
• May 1942
• June 1942
• Battles and operations of World War II involving the United States
• Battles involving Thailand
• Military history of Thailand during World War II

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