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SC008 - Edition 2500 - January 1945 |
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Enemy Resistance ceased in Burma |
| On 10 January enemy resistance ceased at Shwebo in Burma, and two days later the 14th Army captured Budalin, only 60 miles from Mandalay. On the 14th the advance reached Wetlet, 30 miles closer to Mandalay, and three days later the British 36th Division crossed the Irrawaddy river. On 23 January the Ledo Road was completed, and the first convoy for three years crossed the border into China. It had been closed since April 1942. As a tribute to General Stilwell, the new 620 mile highway built behind his advancing army from Ledo in Assam to Mongyu on the old Burma Road was officially named the Stillwell Road. |
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