Hlegu Burma

After the fight at Payagyi, the British column received word that General Alexander planned to evacuate Rangoon and the column was ordered to leave at once and join the rest of the brigade at Hlegu. The town was on fire, …

1942-03-06

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After the fight at Payagyi, the British column received word that General Alexander planned to evacuate Rangoon and the column was ordered to leave at once and join the rest of the brigade at Hlegu. The town was on fire, when the British arrived. The only bridge, however, was still standing and the British column advanced along the road some distance before it encountered a Japanese roadblock. Probes were made, but there was no way around and no attempt was made against the Japanese position that night. At 0700 the next morning, tanks and infantry advanced against the Japanese position. While the infantry cleared both sides of the road, the British tanks made their way around the roadblock. The fighting for these units was far from over, for the column was ordered to move to Taukkyon to rest, but doing so they would join in on the fight already in progress.

Hlegu, Burma

The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma. It was part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II and primarily involved forces of the Allies; the British Empire and the Republic of China, with support from the United States. They faced against the invading forces of Imperial Japan, who were supported by the Thai Phayap Army, as well as two collaborationist independence movements and armies, the first being the Burma Independence Army, which spearheaded the initial attacks against the country. Puppet states were established in the conquered areas and territories were annexed, while the international Allied force in British India launched several failed offensives. During the later 1944 offensive into India and subsequent Allied recapture of Burma the Indian National Army, led by revolutionary Subhas C. Bose and his "Free India", were also fighting together with Japan. British Empire forces peaked at around 1,000,000 land and air forces, and were drawn primarily from British India, with British Army forces, 100,000 East and West African colonial troops, and smaller numbers of land and air forces from several other Dominions and Colonies.

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