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1942
February
02
Stilwell in China
On 2 February 1942 General Joseph Stilwell was ordered to China as Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff and commander of US forces in China, Burma and India.
April
29
The Japanese take Lashio
On 29 April 1942 the Japanese 56th Division took Lashio in Burma, the start of the Burma Road. China lost its last land link with the outside world.
May
01
The Japanese take Mandalay
On 1 May 1942 the Japanese entered burnt-out Mandalay and took Monywa on the Chindwin, threatening to cut Slim's corps off from its only road to India.
06
Stilwell's walk out of Burma
On 6 May 1942 General Joseph Stilwell abandoned his vehicles and led 114 people on foot from Burma to India. Two weeks later all reached Imphal alive.
1943
March
10
The Fourteenth Air Force formed in China
On 10 March 1943 the US Fourteenth Air Force was activated at Kunming under General Claire Chennault, former commander of the Flying Tigers.
September
15
Chiang Kai-shek demands Stilwell's recall
On 15 September 1943 T. V. Soong put to Roosevelt a plan to remove General Stilwell. The crisis around the American in China lasted until 17 October.
October
03
Mountbatten takes command in South-East Asia
In early October 1943 Louis Mountbatten, appointed at Quebec in August, flew to India to take over the Allied South East Asia Command.
December
28
The Chinese in the Hukawng Valley
On 28 December 1943 three battalions of the Chinese 38th Division attacked the Japanese at Yupbang Ga in Burma's Hukawng Valley. Stilwell's offensive was on.
1944
May
18
The Myitkyina airfield
On 17 May 1944 Merrill's Marauders and the Chinese 150th Regiment seized the airfield at Myitkyina by surprise. The town held out for almost three more months.
August
03
The capture of Myitkyina
On 3 August 1944, after a 78-day siege, Stilwell's Chinese divisions and Americans took Myitkyina, the most important Japanese-held town in northern Burma.
1945
January
11
The first convoy on the Ledo Road
In January 1945 the first convoy took the Ledo Road from India across northern Burma to China, leaving Ledo on 12 January and reaching Kunming on 4 February.
31
The opening of the Stilwell Road
At the end of January 1945 the Ledo Road joined the Burma Road. The first convoy from India drove into China and the land blockade of China was broken.
June
22
Key event
The end of the Battle of Okinawa
On 21–22 June 1945 organised resistance by the Japanese 32nd Army on Okinawa ceased and General Ushijima killed himself. Tens of thousands of civilians died.