Battle of the Yunnan–Burma Road

Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
	Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II
Date	March 18 – July 12, 1942; (3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Location	Burma
Result	Axis victory
Belligerents
Axis Japan; Thailand;	Allies China; United Kingdom; United States (air support only);
Commanders and leaders
Shōjirō Iida; Shozo Sakurai; Masao Watanabe; Takeshi Koga; Yūzō Matsuyama; Yutaka Hiroshi; J.R.Seriroengrit	Joseph Stilwell; Luo Zhuoying; Sun Li Jen; Liu Fangwu; Dai Anlan; Liao Yaoxiang; James Scott; David Tennant Cowan; John Anstice; William Slim; Claire Lee Chennault
Strength
35,000	95,000
Casualties and losses
33rd, 55th, 56th,; Phayap Army	50,000

Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road (18 March – 24 May 1942; Chinese: 滇緬路戰役) was the name of the Chinese intervention to aid their British allies in the 1942 Burma Campaign. Its forces were composed of the Fifth, Sixth and Sixty-sixth Army under the command of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma, commanded by Lt. General Joseph Stilwell, Lt. General Luo Zhuoying was his executive officer.

In February 1942, General Lo Cho-ying directed 5th Army to move from western Yunnan to the vicinity of Toungoo and further south in Burma. Advanced elements of the 200th Division of 5th Army arrived at Toungoo on March 8, 1942, and took over defensive positions from the British forces. The 6th Army was directed to move from Kunming to the Burma–Thai border. Its leading elements reached Mawchi, Mong Pan and Mong Ton in mid March. The 66th Army later arrived in Lashio and Mandalay as a reserve and to assist the British forces in their operations.

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