Malaysia honors Nanyang Volunteers with WWII memorial park, preserving untold stories of overseas Chinese heroes.

Selangor Nanyang Drivers and Mechanics World War II Monument Photo: Courtesy of Yong Pock Yau. Silently standing at the Kwong ...

The exhibition will tell the stories behind the awards of the Victoria Cross, the UK's highest award for gallantry, to British and Commonwealth troops who fought Japan in the Burma Campaign during ...

Between 1942 and 1945, Burma was home to the Japanese Burma Area Army – at least 308,582 strong at its height – which was a demonstrable threat to India in Operations Ha-Go and U-Go in 1944.

The Japanese had begun planning for their invasion of South-East Asia (including the simultaneous attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor) at least a year before.

Review The Reconquest of Burma. Volume II. June 1944-August 1945 Reviewed by Henry L. Roberts April 1960 Published on April 1, 1960 ...

Born in Rangoon, Burma (now known as Myanmar), Helen’s family trekked to Dibrugarh, Assam in 1943 to escape from the Japanese occupation of Burma.

This silver cigarette case is a testament to how Captain JP Wilson helped to use elephants in the rescue of refugees during the Japanese invasion of Burma (Image: GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM) ...

Contributed by jomajohnson People in story: Jose Johnson, Daphne Johnson, Norman (Johnnie) Johnson, Joy Curtis (nee Hobbs), Mary Mustill, Jack Mustill Location of story: Burma Background to story ...

Originally written in 1945, this record by Burma's Prime Minister is instructive both as an account of the Japanese occupation and the Burmese response, and for the insights it provides into the ...

A former RAF pilot who protected the Bay of Bengal from Japanese invasion during the Second World War has said world leaders need their heads “knocking together” as he reflected on the 79th ...

Sudhakar Unudurti's Telugu novel, Chedarina Paadamudralu, delves into the forgotten history of Telugu-speaking labourers who trekked back from Burma during the second World War.