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Burma featured the defeat of the largest single Japanese army in WW2.
A lot of Japanese got ate by crocodiles on one island.
Japanese forces in Burma made great use of captured Allied tanks (Stuarts, mainly) as the Japanese advance relied on supply-capturing to maintain itself.
Nationalist Chinese troops were also involved - the American angle on Burma was about keeping their friendly Chinese state going ("we're not helping the Brits maintain their immoral colonial Empire, no sir!"), the complete failure of that state post war and the rise of the PRC is probably what contributes to Burma being forgot in America - it proved meaningless in American terms.
Satchel charges on bamboo-poles were a common allied method to destroy Japanese bunkers.
Kohima is very much a kind of British-Indian Stalingrad esque battle against the odds (in India, at least, it is still very strongly remembered as crucial moment of Indian army history).
General Slim, overall commander of British-Indian forces, was an absolute and incredible legend.
British-Indian forces in Burma were from quite literally everywhere, with men from Lancashire fighting alongside Pashtu alongside West Africans.
The author of the Flashman books fought there, and wrote a great book about it.
The British civil servant in charge of relations with Burma's native hill peoples was regarded with near-deity awe by them, and refused to be evacuated from his home (at Kohima) so he could continue to be with them. - At Kohima, his tennis court was a crucial battleground, with Japanese and British-Indian trenches at either end of it.
