Burma campaign (1944)

Burma Campaign 1943–1944
Part of the Pacific War during World War II
A C-47 transport aircraft drops supplies by parachute to Allied troops in action against Japanese forces; a common event during the fighting in Burma and India during 1944.
Date October 1943 – November 1944 Location State of Burma Assam, British India Yunnan, Republic of China Result Allied victory
Belligerents
British Empire  United Kingdom  India Burma Gambia  Gold Coast Kenya Nigeria[1]  Northern Rhodesia  Southern Rhodesia  Nyasaland Uganda Nepal (See also Gurkha) China  United States	Japan Azad Hind (INA)
Commanders and leaders
Louis Mountbatten William Slim Wei Lihuang Joseph Stilwell	Masakazu Kawabe Renya Mutaguchi Subhas Chandra Bose
Casualties and losses
29,324 (British Commonwealth)	71,289 (Japanese)[2]

The fighting in the Burma campaign in 1944 was among the most severe in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II. It took place along the borders between Burma and India, and Burma and China, and involved the British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces, against the forces of Imperial Japan and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from the United Kingdom, British India and Africa.

The Allies had overcome the logistic and organisational difficulties which had crippled their earlier efforts, and they were preparing to invade Japanese-occupied Burma at several widely separated points. The Japanese forestalled them by launching their own offensive into India, and this offensive became larger in scope than originally intended. By the end of the year, the Allies had achieved significant territorial gains only in one sector, the extreme north-east of Burma, but the Japanese attack on India had been defeated with very heavy casualties. This handicapped the Japanese attempts to defend Burma against renewed Allied offensives in the following year.