Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Burma Road (1938–45)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Burma Road”
1938–45 — From this railhead, a 1,100-km mountain road of hairpin bends carried imports to Free China through Kunming. Much of it was dug by hand. Japan cut the road in 1942, so aircraft carried supplies over the Himalaya by the Hump: 600,000 tons at a cost of some 600 Allied aircraft. The route reopened as the Ledo Road in 1945. These routes through and over the mountains kept China from being 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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