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  Burma Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Japanese then launched large overland attacks aimed at airfields at Tavoy and Mergui in the southern province of Tenasserim, which were difficult to defend and reinforce.
Japanese 33rd Army HQ was attacked here, and although Lieutenant-General Honda and his staff escaped, they could no longer control the remnants of their formations.
The Burmese National Army was originally organized by the Minami Kikan as the Burmese Independence Army in December of 1941, where it then served as an auxiliary of the Japanese Army.
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 Northern Combat Area Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So his command should be placed under 11th Army Group at the same level as the Fourteenth which was under the command of General William Slim.
For example, as Chief of Staff to Chiang, he was often needed in Chungking, the Chinese capital, and as Deputy Allied Supreme Commander he was needed at HQ South East Asia Command at Kandy in Ceylon and as NCAC commander he was required to be relatively near the frontline in Burma.
However, the Japanese 33rd Army under General Masaki Honda performed a very creditable delaying action against the forces attacking them.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Combat_Area_Command   (1350 words)

  
 Army National Guard History
Newer helicopters and fixed wing aircraft were received by the Army Guard in addition to upgraded tanks and artillery pieces, while infantry units replaced their recoilless rifles with TOW and Dragon antitank missiles.
A majority of the U.S. Army's combat service support units were now located in the reserve components, and the majority of the first Army Guard units to be mobilized were transportation, quartermaster, and military police units.
Army Guard units were still arriving in the Persian Gulf in January 1991 as the offensive against Iraq, Desert Storm, was launched by the Allied air forces.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/arng-history.htm   (6403 words)

  
 Japanese Invasion
The first Japanese ground action against Burma was in December 1941, when a battalion of 143rd Regiment of 55th Division crossed the Burma-Siam border and seized Victoria Point on 16 December, the most southerly extremity of Tenasserim.
On the ground, this was followed by a lull as the Japanese organised themselves for the invasion proper from across the border with Siam.
The Bilin River position was attacked by both Japanese 33rd and 55th Divisions and the Indian Division, after four days defence, began a withdrawal to the Sittang on the night of 19/20 February.
homepages.force9.net /rothwell/burmaweb/japinvade.htm   (976 words)

  
 Army Reporter Articles 3
However, many other Army aviation units are doing their part to insure that the VNAF will soon possess the aviation capability to defend themselves against aggression.
Army officials explain that the VNAF pilots training with them are all second lieutenants; most of them have less than two years' service.
When the war was over and the Japanese had returned to their homeland, the airfield was controlled by the French colonial administration for the next nine years.
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 Japanese Language Books
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This is the first Japanese grammar written for the adult with a limited objective in studying Japanese: to express oneself orally with reasonable accuracy; to understand simple material addressed to oneself; to be able to analyze, understand, and enlarge material in a phrase approach or record set.
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 World War Two Books — Military History Books online > The Japanese Army Handbook 1939-1945
The Japanese Imperial Army grew from 1.5 million men in 1939 to 5.5 million men by the end of the war.
Their highly successful campaigns in the Far East and the Pacific at the beginning of World War II were every bit as spectacular as those of the Germans in Europe, and they earned an enviable reputation as expert jungle fighters which it took some years for the Allies to match.
Fully illustrated with rare archive photographs, this is a comprehensive study of the army.
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 BBC - WW2 People's War - Battles of Mandalay and Meiktila - A1122328
They encountered minimal opposition, as the Japanese were withdrawing south east from the plain towards positions some 80km (50 miles) away on the River Irrawaddy, near Mandalay.
This was a blow to Slim who had hoped to encircle the Japanese and inflict a heavy defeat in open countryside, using his vastly superior armour, artillery and air force.
The Japanese 15th Army was retreating to the south and central Burma was now in British hands.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1122328   (901 words)

  
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 THE NAFZIGER COLLECTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
942JXAC: Japanese Korean Army, 1941-1942 - 1 pg
942JDAC: Reinforcements to Kwantung Army, April-July 1942 - 1 pg
Note: The first six OBs are from official army records and list the complete organization of every division and corps, with all organic units and all formations temporarily attached to them.
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