Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Burma Road (1938–45)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Burma Road”
1938–45 — From this railhead, 1,100 km of hairpin mountain road — dug largely by hand — carry Free China’s imports to Kunming. Cut by Japan in 1942, replaced by the Hump airlift over the Himalaya (600,000 tons, at the cost of some 600 Allied aircraft), reopened as the Ledo Road in 1945. Geography is why China cannot be starved out.
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- Sino-Japanese War stalemate (chapter 9 of Chinese Revolution)
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- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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