Barbara Hawkins's Blog: China Burma India Theater WWII

The new name for Burma is Myanmar. But the people are still Burmese. To get an understanding of the people and what it's like for foreigners to be so far from home that it takes months to return, read George Orwell's Burmese Days.

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"For your tomorrow, we gave our today." British Chindit in Imphal India during WWII

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In the middle of nowhere, this remote village on the Chindwin River in Myanmar (Burma), has a golf course. Once the headquarters for the British Raj teak logging, Victoria era homes stand empty, vacated during WWII when the British evacuated Burma in 1942. See photos of the houses using my link for this post.

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In March 1944 the Japanese charged through Mawlaik, Burma to invade Imphal, India. The defeated Japanese retreated through Mawlaik in July 1944, leaving the sick and wounded to commit suicide in the Mawlaik Forestry building (see photo of building at end of link - see 'my link text')

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Excerpts from General Joseph 'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell's diary on his retreat from Burma to India in 1942. Included in my link are photos of people he may have seen along the way. (see 'my link text')

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