Mullins as 2nd Lt in the Queen's Royal Regiment Joe Mullins, who has died aged 103, was awarded an Immediate MC in 1945 while serving with the Queen’s Royal Regiment (QRR) in the Burma Campaign. In ...
The China-Burma-India theatre of the Second World War is largely a forgotten footnote among the numerous English language accounts of the European and Pacific Theatres. Christopher L. Kolakowski's ...
This is the story of Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell’s trip from Burma. It was cabled to TIME early this week by TIME’S Correspondent Jack Belden, who was with “Uncle Joe” Stilwell through the whole ...
From Burma this week TIME’S Correspondent Jack Belden sent the following report on the campaign that came to an unhappy end with the fall of Mandalay: This is probably my last message. I’m staying ...
The war in Burma has been dismissed by some as a strategic sideshow, in the sense that winning or losing was not decisive in ending the conflict. This began with the 'Germany First' policy agreed ...
During World War II, an Army unit of nearly 3,000 soldiers marched more than 1,000 miles into Japanese-held Burma, launching raids, ambushes and reconnaissance missions deep behind enemy lines. They ...
How the explorer and historian Alex Bescoby raced to recognise veterans from a largely forgotten chapter of WW2 Tracking down surviving soldiers from the Second World War is an increasingly difficult ...