The Military History of World War II: Volume 10

ASIATIC LAND BATTLES:
ALLIED VICTORIES IN CHINA AND BURMA

by

Trevor Nevitt Dupuy
COL., U.S. ARMY, RET.

FRANKLIN WATTS, INC.
575 Lexington Avenue
New York 22

1963

Contents

EARLY LAND BATTLES IN ASIA

"The China Incident,"
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
"Run Out of Burma,"
Preparing to "Go Back,"

THE LONG ROAD BACK TO BURMA

Into the Hukawng Valley
The Chinese and "Merrill's Marauders,"
The Second Arakan Campaign
The Second Chindit Raid

THE JAPANESE STRIKE BACK IN BURMA AND CHINA

The Invasion of India
The Sieges of Imphal and Kohima
Renewed Japanese Offensives in China

THE STRUGGLE FOR NORTH BURMA

Drives to Myitkyina, Kamaing, and Mogaung
The Siege of Myitkyina
The Railroad Corridor Campaign
Operations in Yunnan
Stilwell's Last Offensive

END OF THE CHINA-BURMA-INDIA THEATER

The Crisis in China
Relief of General Stilwell
Halting the Japanese Offensive in China
Change of Plans in North Burma

VICTORY IN BURMA

Japanese Defensive Plans
The Importance of Allied Air Supply
The Third Arakan Campaign
Reopening the Land Supply Route to China
Across the Irrawaddy
The Battle of Meiktila
The Final Operations

VICTORY --- AND A NEW WAR --- IN CHINA

Renewal of the Japanese Offensives
Japanese Withdrawal
The Potsdam Proclamation
Russian Entry into the War
Japanese Surrender
Manchuria --- and Civil War

Early Land Battles in Asia

"The China Incident"

WORLD WAR II began in Asia on July 7, 1937, when Japanese troops attacked Chinese soldiers at the Marco Polo Bridge, near Peking in north China. This was the first move of a carefully calculated plan of conquest by which the Japanese intended to establish what they called the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." What they really meant by these high-sounding words was the expansion of a strengthened Japanese Empire to include China and other lands of eastern and southeastern Asia.[...]

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