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Burma Campaign
Part of the Pacific War during World War II
Geography of Burma
Date January 1942 - July 1945 Location Burma Result Decisive Allied victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom India Burma National Army Republic of China  United States	Empire of Japan  Thailand Azad Hind (INA) Burma National Army
Commanders
Archibald Wavell Louis Mountbatten William Slim Wei Lihuang Joseph Stilwell Aung San (from 1945)	Shōjirō Iida Masakazu Kawabe Hyotaro Kimura Renya Mutaguchi Jarun Rattanakuln Seriroengrit Subhas C. Bose Aung San (until 1945)
Strength
60,000 42,000 (1942)1; 100,000 (1944)2	316,700 (1944)[1] 35,000
Casualties and losses
71,244 killed and wounded[2]	144,000 killed; possibly another 70,000 wounded. Total: ~200,000.3
1 Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma. 2 The X Force and Y Force. 3 Japanese Army

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