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	China Burma India Theater of World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		China Burma India Theater (CBI) was the name used by the United States Army for its forces in China, Burma, India during World War II.
		The US forces in the CBI theater were grouped together for administrative purposes under the command of General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, but unlike the other theaters in the war, for example the European Theater of Operations, it was never a "theater of operations" and did not have an overall operational command.
		However, by the time the last phase of the Burma Campaign began in earnest, NCAC had become irrelevant, and it was dissolved in early 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/China_Burma_India_Theater_of_World_War_II (1548 words)

	South-East Asian theatre of World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		India Command under General Sir Archibald Wavell the Commander-in-Chief (CinC) of the Army of India and the Far East Command, first under Air Chief Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham and then from December 23, 1941 commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall.
		After transferring the forces in Burma to the India Command, on February 25, 1942 Wavell resigned as commander of the ABDA and resumed his position of CinC of the Army of India.
		BURMA 1944-1945 Qualification: For operations during the 14th Army's advance from Imphal to Rangoon, the coastal amphibious assaults, and the Battle of Pegu Yomas, August 1944 to August 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South-East_Asian_Theatre_of_World_War_II (1823 words)

	BURMA & INDIA IN WW II
		Japanese occupation of Burma in 1942 cut off the Burma Road, the last land route by which the Allies could deliver support for the defense of China to the government of Chiang Kai-shek.
		By late summer of 1944 the Allies had cleared northern Burma, permitting construction of the Ledo Road and a fuel oil pipeline from India to China.
		Operations in Burma during the last year of the war were left to the British, who were more interested in recovering Singapore than in taking Burma or helping China.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1942burmaindia.php (844 words)

	Operations in the China, Burma, India Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		By late summer of 1944 the Allies had cleared northern Burma, permitting construction of the Ledo (or Stilwell) Road and a fuel oil pipeline from India to China.
		In September 1944 Japanese forces in China overran the airfields in South China and threatened areas slated for the construction of B-29 airfields.
		China was a disappointment, and the only aim of Allied strategy during the last year of the war was to keep Chinese resistance alive in order to distract Japanese forces in that area.
	www.armedforces.net /Detailed/920.html (1059 words)

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		CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, P-40s from Suichwan pound a barrack SW of Nanchang, causing heavy damage; a B-25 strike during the night of 6/7 Apr on airfields near Canton is curtailed by bad weather; only 1 B-25 reaches the target, dropping fragmentation bombs on revetments.
		CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In Burma, P-40s on armed reconnaissance from Lashio to Man Kat cause considerable damage; 2 trucks, a warehouse, a water tank, and 2 locomotives are destroyed, gun positions and a bridge are strafed and a Japanese-occupied building is left in flames.
		EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO) STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 329: 295 bombers and 644 fighters are dispatched to 3 targets in France; the bombers claim 3-0-6 Luftwaffe aircraft and the fighters claim 18-1-5 in the air and 11-0-17 on the ground; 1 bomber and 5 fighter are lost: 1.
	paul.rutgers.edu /~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/Apr.44 (13350 words)

	Burma Banshees
		But the group's nickname, the "Burma Banshees," sent a message to its Japanese enemies in the China-Burma-India Theater that when they heard the wailing sound of a Banshee's machine, death and destruction were coming their way.
		Its area of operation was the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater of War, World War II (WWII), in the main, Burma and India, between 1943-1945, under the command of the 10th Army Air Force (AAF).
		A study of the 10th AAF to which the Burma Banshees were assigned takes you into the mind-boggling organizational chaos that enveloped the Allies from the outset of the war against Japan.
	www.talkingproud.us /HistoryBanshees.html (1997 words)

	:: CBI Expeditions - Burma Road:The Road to Re-discover ::
		The photograph illustrates the formidable condition of the Burma Road as the captions invariably describe the wartime international supply line that started in India, passed through Myanmar and ended in Southwest China.
		In the West, the Burma Road is generally seen as a part of the 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)

	:: CBI Expeditions - Local Veteran Returns to Burma after 60 Years ::
		The trip organizer, a Burmese national, Khine, had been doing WWII historical research in the Burma area, and she was interested in connecting with veterans learning their experiences.
		It was my intention to play Taps at my campsite at Namkhan, Burma, as a tribute to all who served in the CBI theater of operations.
		It was a delightful ending to the trip on the China side of the border.
	www.cbiexpeditions.com /html_pages/article8.htm (1351 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Burma Road is the extraordinary story of the China-Burma-India theater of operations during World War II.
		Webster's details of his trip to Burma indicate his true passion for the subject, but his emotions and opinions were left out of the history part of the book.
		He describes his own trips through the Burma Road, the difficulties he had, and is quite vivid in talking about the personal adventures he had while attempting to travel the road today.
	www.angelfire.com /ia/totalwar/Review001.html (523 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II: Books: Donovan Webster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		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 ran from Rangoon to Lashio and was used to send American lend-lease materials through British-run Burma to Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist regime in China in the period 1937-41.
		Second, north-east India was hopelessly undeveloped and the logistical task of moving resources even as far as Ledo seemed insuperable to the British High Command in India, which had other priorities and other problems.
	www.amazon.ca /Burma-Road-Story-China-Burma-India-Theater/dp/0060746386 (2623 words)

	Stilwell Road (Ledo Road)
		General Stilwell's Operations Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Frank D. Merrill recommended building a road from Ledo, Assam, India to Burma connecting the old Burma Road to provide a Land Supply to China and Burma for support of the Allied soldiers who were fighting in the North Burma.
		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.
		However, 61 km of the road lies in India, 1,033 km in Burma (Myanmar) and 632 km in China.
	www.geocities.com /nicchg/stilwell.html (954 words)

	Mel Kaye describes the C-B-I theater
		American troops were in India primarily to help push back the Japanese, who had invaded clear across China, and were entering India through the Assam Valley.
		General Eisenhower was in charge of the European operations, General MacArthur was in charge of the Pacific operations, and Lord Louis Mountbatten was in charge of the CBI—so all the American troops were under British command at the top.
		At that time, India was a colony of the British, and Pakistan had not yet split off from India.
	www.thebicyclingguitarist.net /china-burma-india/mel-kaye.htm (339 words)

	In Action in the China
		I was assigned to the 2nd Battalion of Merrill's Marauders in the Northern Burma campaign.
		Operating in North Burma, we started in January 1945 with a month-long forced march from Camp Landis near Myitkina, Burma, and forced the enemy to retreat south to Rangoon.
		Pegg said this was wrong and wrote out a directive from the China theater and so we got the CIB and the $10 per month retroactively.
	www.javadc.org /in_action_in_the_china.htm (2904 words)

	Burma Road @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		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.
		In all, some 650,000 tons (600,000 metric tonnes) of supplies were ferried to China over the Hump, but at a cost: More than 600 planes and 1,000 lives were lost in the airlift.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0311/feature5 (1099 words)

	The Burma Road
		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.
		He and his group would have to hack their way to safety in India across 140 miles of mountains and jungles, with the Japanese chasing them all the way.
		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)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		This new Air Force is responsible for all USAAF units in China; Major General Claire L. Chennault is named Commanding General.
		P-40s from Kunming fly armored reconnaissance into Burma, crossing the Salween River and covering areas SW of Lashio.
		CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force) In French Indochina, P-40s strafe the Mong Yaw storage area and docks, warehouse area, and rail-river terminal (for phosphate mines) at Lao Kay.
	www.usaaf.net /chron/43/mar43.htm (10222 words)

	The Burma Road by Donovan Webster - HistoryWiz Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at the war's outset--closing all of China's seaports--more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a seven-hundred-mile overland route--which would be called the Burma Road--from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma.
		This was an enormous undertaking, from the United States to India to China.
		Stilwell's headaches running such a sprawling theater, while previously researched by Barbara Tuchman (Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, 1970), are ably integrated by Webster into the infantryman's viewpoint: the result is a high-quality overview.
	www.historywiz.com /books/moreinfo/burmaroad.htm (695 words)

	A Guide to the War in the Pacific: The Pacific Offensive
		The "Forgotten War" in the China-Burma-India Theater was so dubbed because it lacked the priority the Southwest and Central Pacific campaigns received in Washington.
		China, for centuries, had been perpetually on the brink of war with Japan; north and central Burma is nestled between India and China.
		The Marco Polo bridge incident in July 1937 was followed by all-out war between Japan and China, made easier for the Japanese as a result of the Chinese civil war, which pitted Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang against Mao Tse-tung's Communist forces.
	www.nps.gov /wapa/indepth/extContent/wapa/guides/offensive/sec4.htm (1292 words)

	WORLD WAR II : China-Burma-India(CBI) Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Subash Chandra Bose used the airplane to drop leaflets narrating that the Japanese and the INA were in fact friends of India and that they were trying to free India from Britain.
		The defence of India was always of primary importance by British forces.
		In fact, strategically well placed for attacks on the lines of communication by railway, road and river (which were vital for all allied operations in Burma) Imphal was indeed a main objective when the Japanese made their thrust towards India in the spring of 1944.
	themanipurpage.tripod.com /history/wwII.html (2998 words)

	Photo Album - Bridge over Kwai - Mekong Express
		An account of the forming and training of a WWII B-24 Liberator Crew and their combat missions in the "unknown and forgotten" theater of war, the China Burma India (CBI) theater.
		Shuffled between China and India by politics, they hauled gasoline in four bomb-bay tanks over the Himalayan "hump" and because they had defensive guns, into Japanese surrounded airfields east of Luliang, China.
		A 2nd lieutenant at age 19, he trained in B-24s at Tonopah, Nevada, and went to the China Burma India theater in September 1944.
	www.mekongexpress.com /thailand/photoalbum/photoalb_thai.htm (437 words)

	Kenyon College - The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The drama unfolds in the sweltering, buggy, breathtakingly beautiful jungles and mountains of northern Burma, which claimed tens of thousands of lives without respect to rank or uniform.
		For readers already familiar with the Burma campaign, Webster retells the activities of the commanders—Chiang, Chennault, Mountbatten, Merrill, and Wingate—from a perspective that is sympathetic to the caustic American General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell.
		One who left a deep impression on this reader was Sergeant Roy Matsumoto, a Japanese American who volunteered from an Arkansas internment camp to serve as an interpreter for the famed Merrills' Marauders.
	www.kenyon.edu /x19364.xml (457 words)

	U.S. Army Air Forces in the CBI
		This webpage is dedicated to telling the story of the 1213th Military Police unit of the 10th AAF, which was stationed at various air fields in India and Burma from 1943-1946.
		Almost a hundred pictures of India and China as seen and taken by a private who worked with the ground crew in the Army Air Corps.
		He travelled extensively as a member of the Air Transport Command and was a CBI veteran who flew "The Hump" to stay in China until nearly the end of the war.
	o.webring.com /hub?ring=cbiusaaf (1153 words)

	The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II -- book review
		Unfortunately for the Allies almost all of China’s sea ports were controlled by the Japanese, thus necessitating an overland route.
		This supply route running from Burma into China was to be called the Burma Road, and the job of keeping this umbilical cord to China in friendly hands was given to American General Stilwell.
		The characters, props, and plot of the CBI theater are fully investigated and placed in history.
	www.curledup.com /burmard.htm (680 words)

	The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II Military Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		THE BURMA ROAD: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II, Donovan Webster, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2003, 370 pages, $25.00.
		The book also describes the "epic story of the CBI Theater," but, again, much of the discussion is sketchy and many key details are omitted.
		The Burma Road, however, does not present enough new material to make it worthwhile for the expert, and the novice does not possess the background to pull together Webster's loose ends.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PBZ/is_3_85/ai_n13822918 (257 words)

	B-24 "MISS MANDY" in the CBI during WWII
		KUNMING, China, Jan. 26 (Delayed) (AP) - The United States Fourteenth Air Force's Liberator group, known unofficially as "the Liberators of China," may now be referred to publicly by its official designation, the 308th Bombardment Group.
		Weight was such a factor, that most of the armor plate had been stripped out of Miss Mandy when she arrived in the CBI Theater so the Liberator could haul more payload.
		The B-24 was not only used as a bomber but as a tanker and transport, and although it flew in all theaters of war, it was used most in the Mediterranean and Pacific, where longer range gave it an edge over the B-17.
	www.donnan.com /cbi.htm (1628 words)

	Columbus WWII Round Table/First-Person Accounts/China-Burma-India Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Simpson was sent to Kunming, China in 1943 as an instructor at the signal school.
		In February 1944 he was placed in charge of a group of three U.S. second lieutenants and four signal repairmen and two truck loads of signal equipment to work with the 53rd Chinese Army and set up a signal school.
		Simpson describes the problems faced in communication and lack of supplies as they moved with the Chinese Army to open the Burma Road.
	www.ohiojunction.net /ww2/chinabi.html (113 words)

	WWII - FE/Pac - China-Burma-India Theater
		The author was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Chungking, Szechuan Province, from 8 July 1942, monitoring "all radio traffic for the Embassy." In [?April-May 1943], he moved to the U.S. Naval Group China, Fox station, where he did intercept and traffic analysis.
		Bates, NIPQ 13.1, notes that Winborn, who arrived in China in February 1945, tells a "fast moving, first-person narrative" of his service in Nanping and, after the end of the war, in Shanghai.
		His job during the war was to "take charge of all crashed or captured enemy air equipment" within his area of responsibility.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /wwii_folder/wwiifepac_folder/wwiifepaccbi.html (1241 words)

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