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	Burma Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		Burma Road in Nassau, Bahamas, was the scene of rioting in 1942, when workers building an airport demonstrated for better pay and conditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burma_Road (445 words)

	Ledo Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ledo Road, (from Ledo, Assam to Kunming, China) was built during World War II so that the Western Allies could supply the Chinese as an alternative to the the Burma Road which had been cut by the Japanese in 1942.
		It was renamed the Stilwell Road in early 1945 at the suggestion of Chiang Kai-shek.
		As the road was built, two 10 cm (4 inch) fuel pipe lines were laid side by side so that fuel could be piped instead of trucked along the road.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ledo_Road (1725 words)

	Burma Road on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BURMA ROAD [Burma Road] in China and Myanmar, extending from the Myanmarese railhead of Lashio to Kunming, Yunnan prov., China.
		Blood, sweat, and toil along the Burma road: carved through mountains and malarial jungles at a frightful human cost, the infamous World War II Allied supply line that linked India to China now conveys gold, teak, opium, and the promise of a troubled nation's future.
		BURMA'S RULERS TAKE THE ROAD TO MANDALAY; Retreat from Rangoon; The Burmese capital is being moved to a purpose-built 'command and control' centre deep in the jungle by the country's secretive and brutal military junta.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BurmaR1oa.asp (420 words)

	STILWELL ROAD - Story of the Ledo Lifeline - China-Burma-India Theater of World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Crossing the road between Ledo and Shingbwiyang are traces of the famous Refugee Trail, scene of untold suffering and sacrifice on the part of the Burmese, Indians and British who, fleeing from the Jap hordes during the dread monsoon of 1942, picked their way through the jungles toward safety in Assam.
		Although places in China along the Burma Road were visited by the trader Marco Polo as early as the 13th Century, the commerce and business of the country has been centered in the seacoast cities because of their accessibility by water.
		Road blocks had been thrown across the Burma Road, both north and south of the open town of Mangshih, in June, and troops advancing south from Lungling took the town on November 20.
	cbi-theater-2.home.comcast.net /lifeline/Ledo_Lifeline.html (9012 words)

	:: CBI Expeditions - Burma Road:The Road to Re-discover ::
		But when people wanted to return to the road in the old photo recently to refresh their memory of that important part of history, they found no one knew where the road was exactly located.
		In his article, "Searching for a 'road on a photo'," which first appearing in the 4th issue of this year's Cultural Geography, a Yunnan-based periodical, Ge said that 20 kinds of domestic or overseas publications or websites had almost all said the place was a part of the Burma Road or Stilwell Road.
		The Burma Road, stretching from Lashio in the northern part of Myanmar to Kunming in Southwest China, was built in 1938 by the Chinese people when the Japanese began to occupy a greater part of China.
	www.cbiexpeditions.com /html_pages/article2.htm (1216 words)

	Warren Weidenburner CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Burma Road was officially reopened in January 1945 and Stilwell was relieved as commander of CBI.
		The Burma Road was built by the Chinese during the Sino-Japanese War.
		Until the Burma Road could be retaken and the Ledo Road completed, the only supply route available was the costly and dangerous route for transport planes over the Himalayas between India'a Assam Valley and Kunming, China.
	warren421.home.comcast.net /history.html (3180 words)

	The Burma Road on bicycle
		The road has been awash in a golden light reflected off endless fields of rapeseed in bloom, a common crop from which canola oil is derived.
		During China’s anti-Japanese war, the Burma Road and its intersecting partner, the Stillwell Road which goes into Ledo, India, were the key to getting supplies into China through the back door during the Japanese occupation.
		Its importance diminished by a new (and separate) expressway, the Chinese portion of the Burma Road meanders westward from mile-high Kunming, dubbed Spring City for its year-round pleasant climate, to the tropical border at Wanding, at a mere 1,400-foot elevation.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/Apr2004/Burma.htm (1462 words)

	Stilwell Road (Ledo Road)
		In December 1942, the road construction begun by constructing Warehouses, Hospitals, Barracks and base roads at Ledo, Assam, India side by side fighting with the Japanese forces.
		In the course of time, the Stilwell Road had virtually disappeared due to the road lies in the lands of three different nation that are China, Burma and India and due to non maintenance by the respective nations.
		The section of road which lies within Arunachal Pradesh has been maintained by the Government of Arunachal Pradesh and the road section which lies within the area of Assam out of 14 km is in deplorable condition due to non maintenance by Government of Assam and vehicular are facing lot of difficulties.
	www.geocities.com /nicchg/stilwell.html (954 words)

	the burma road information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burma Road, in China and Myanmar, extending from the Myanmarese railhead...
		Ledo Road reached Myitkyina and was joined to the Burma Road.
		Burma Road Reserve Burma Road Reserve Dept of Environment and Heritage rp03501b Nominator...
	property-gd.com /articles/16/the-burma-road.html (435 words)

	HyperWar: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: Central Burma
		Meanwhile in northern Burma, the Northern Combat Area Command and the Chinese Expeditionary Force, after reopening the land route between India and China, were to advance through Lashio on to Mandalay by mid-February, the peak of the dry season.
		In the objective area, the Burma Road was not easily severed, since it was beyond machine gun range from the ridge paralleling the road on the west and secondary roads existed in the hills to the east, providing the enemy with an alternative line of communication.
		During 1945, when existing trails between Myitkyina and the old Burma Road made the road work less arduous, perhaps the most spectacular feature of the construction of the road from an engineering perspective was the erection of a number of bridges, particularly those over the Irrawaddy and Shweli Rivers.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-C-Burma45 (5959 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Burma's long road ahead
		Burma's generals have released the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but concern remains about how serious the military is about political reform.
		Members of the National League for Democracy are obviously ecstatic that their leader has been released, but now the initial euphoria is subsiding there are questions about where the dialogue process goes from here.
		It was Aung San Suu Kyi's attempts to travel outside Rangoon in 2000 that prompted the military to return her to house arrest, having freed her in 1995.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1972764.stm (723 words)

	Burma Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Ledo Road and the Old Burma Road were officially (re)opened on 12 January 1945 by a convoy headed by General Lewis A. Pick who had led this titanesque work : 1,120 miles (1,800 km) of road that cost almost the life of one man per mile.
		The road has been given in concession for decades to a powerful group that, in exchange of a few bank notes to give at each of the numerous toll gates, enlarges, doubles and maintain it usable.
		The road is used by various vehicles, ranging from oxcarts to overloaded trucks.
	www.656squadron.org /burma.htm (4105 words)

	Clearing the Burma Road - YANK - March 17, 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The tanks moved along the road that is the spur route from Bhamo to the Burma Road, bypassing a section where ther were Jap land mines, and reached the Burma Road junction at 1113 hours.
		Not seeing any sign of the Japs up on the barren, almost treeless hills on either side of the road or in the fields near the road, we headed back as little groups of Chinese infantrymen moved by, looking into each clump of bushes with ready guns.
		When we again reached the road junction, a big crowd of officers, GIs, Chinese soldiers and war correspondents was there, clustered around an open light tank.
	cbi-theater-2.home.comcast.net /burmaroad/burmaroad.html (1650 words)

	Aviation Engineer Battalions in WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the Japanese had cut the Burma Road, the only way for the Allies to send supplies to the Chinese was by air, via the famous "Hump" route.
		So great was the importance of establishing a land route to China, that the United States assigned 15,000 American troops to constructing the Ledo Road, which ran 271 miles from Ledo onthe India Burma border to a junction on the old Burma Road.
		Tasked with another white unit to maintain the road from the Salween River to Kunming, the 858th remained in China until V-J Day, and it held the distinction of being the only fl battalion sent to China.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/history/wwii/aeb6.htm (429 words)

	burma road information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burma Road, in China and Myanmar, extending from the Myanmarese...
		The Burma Road, the main supply line from Rangoon, Burma, to China travelled through some of the most...
		Therein is one of my two little quibbles with "Burma Road..." it covers so much the casual reader...
	property-gd.com /articles/19/burma-road.html (532 words)

	Burma Road @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They'd prefer to think that the road they hacked across India's steep Patkai Range and down through the jungles of Burma to China during World War II is gone.
		This is how my journey along the Burma Road begins: with recollections of old soldiers and a warning backed by machine guns as I get close to India's touchy frontier.
		The construction of the Burma Road over forbidding, monsoon-swept terrain was an astonishing feat.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0311/feature5 (1099 words)

	The Burma Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The British colony of Burma was lost to Japan in 1942, symbolized by the "walkout" of Gen. Joseph Stilwell from Maymyo to Imphal by May 20, 1942: "We got a hell of a beating...
		FDR supported a Burma theater with limited supplies, and by Sept. 1943 Stilwell was able to start his GALAHAD offensive with the help of the Kachin guerillas trained by Detachment 101 of the OSS, aimed at taking the airfield at Myitkyina, the largest city in Kachin province.
		Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India crippled the British railroads; until the Burma Road was reopened, FDR created the ATC to "fly the hump" in new C-46 cargo planes 500 miles from Assam to Kunming with 12,000 tons per month for China.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/Pacific06b.html (946 words)

	India To Build One More Road in Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 70-km road is divided into two parts and the survey has been completed to carry forward the construction of the road.
		Another aspect of the road is the growing drug trafficking along the international border and with the current poor road conditions it has affected the anti-drug operation along the border.
		The sources further stated that once the road is completed, the border trade between the two countries would be increased to a large volume.
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2004/news-in-mar/24-mar04-24.htm (321 words)

	The Road to Burma -- More on the India-Burma Campaign
		Before a large scale ground assault into Burma could happen, it was first essential to send limited supplies to Chinese guerrilla forces already fighting the Japanese in Burma.
		Plans were drawn up for an offensive to begin with a Chinese-American force attacking North Burma with the goal of capturing Myitkyina which would remove the threat of enemy fighter planes attacking allied forces flying the Hump.
		With the road finally open allied forces quickly routed the Japanese out of Burma and were able to funnel supplies into mainland China.
	www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /extra/india/burma.html (1591 words)

	Burma Road On Assignment @ National Geographic Magazine
		One night we were in Shingbwiyang, in northern Myanmar, the last town before the road goes to a footpath toward India.
		The 70- to 80-mile (110- to 130-kilometer) stretch of road that goes from Shingbwiyang to the border of India is a footpath, so you have to walk it.
		If that approach was too steep, they wouldn't do it with all the stuff on their backs.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0311/feature5/assignment1.html (511 words)

	Burma Road
		Burma Road, in China and Myanmar, extending from the Myanmarese railhead of Lashio to Kunming, Yunnan prov., China.
		Ledo Road - Ledo Road: see Burma Road.
		It is a trade center and the terminus of the railroad...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0809526.html (222 words)

	Amazon.com: The Burma Road : The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II: Books: Donovan Webster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From the fall of Burma to the Japanese in 1942 until the end of the war, the Allies strove to keep China supplied with matériel from India-by air over "the Hump," and overland via the Burma Road, which stretched 700 miles to the Chinese city of Kunming.
		The Burma Road is a very good book and it really brings the cast of characters who make up the China-Burma-India theater to vivid life.
		Nevertheless, The Burma Road by Donovan Webster has finally brought this previously dark and unknown theater to stark and vivid light.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374117403?v=glance (2105 words)

	Rambles: Donovan Webster, The Burma Road
		There is a bit of a framing story around the book, with Webster trying to walk the full length of the Burma Road from Burma to China; the road was supposed to supply the Chinese and keep them in the war.
		While Japan invades Thailand and Burma and Stillwell is forced to slog through the jungles to escape, he manages to keep them from their ultimate goal.
		The one aspect of this where The Burma Road fails, however, is in regards to China.
	www.rambles.net /webster_burmard03.html (913 words)

	Burma Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is probably most famous to Westerners for its strategic role in World War II, where the Allied Powers used the Burma Road to transport supplies to China.
		At that time, Burma was a colony of the United Kingdom.
		When the Japanese overran sections of the Burma Road the Allies flew supplies over the Hump and built the Ledo Road.
	www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Burma_Road&action=edit (119 words)

	The Burma Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Converted for the Web from "The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II" by Donovan Webster, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2003; $25.00US/$41.50CAN; 0-374-11740-3.
		It was May, always the steamiest month in south Asia's nation of Burma, where -- in the late spring -- daily temperatures surpass one hundred degrees and the humidity hovers near 100 percent, day and night.
		But before he could reinvade Burma and drive the Japanese out, Stilwell knew the job at hand was to hike to safety in India.
	www.worldwar2history.info /Burma/Road.html (1535 words)

	Southeast Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burma Road - Famous curved section - January 10, 1942 - 111K
		Burma Road - motor convoy - up to 2000 vehicles a day - 114K
		Burma Road - Convoy ascends the famous 21 curves at Annan, China - 3/26/45 - 376K
	baby.indstate.edu /gga/gga_cart/gecar145.htm (117 words)

	Burma Road Ventures
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