Below are the links to the stories submitted by various members of the Armed Forces who fought in Burma.  If you click on the relevant name, it will take you to his/her story.

'You Lucky Lads'
Ken Keen's account of life with the 1st Btn Essex Regt / 23rd Bde

The Battle for Hill 170 and the V.C. awarded to Lt. George Knowland
Brigadier K.R.S. Trevor CBE DSO 
 

Burma with the Seaforth Highlanders
Peter Torrance

The Battle of Sittang 16th - 23rd February 1942
Bill Norman's account

See also BBC's 'The Peoples' War' - Click Here

BURMA AND BACK
Bill Hannah of the Gordon Highlanders & 255 Ind Tank Bde

INCIDENT ON THE SITTANG, MAY 1945
Frank Merrett

"Time Was"
Manny Curtis about his time with the South Lancashire Regt

"Ontario Captain Among Mule-eating Warriers in 90 day Jungle Saga"
about the 'secret' war behind enemy lines

"Smash Railways, Bridges, Relieve Pressure in China in Epic Jungle Campaign"
about the 'secret' war behind enemy lines

The Burma Police and the Retreat from Rangoon
J.R. Manning - Click Here

Read the story of the 
Burma - 1942 - Retreat. 
by E. Eason Click Here

'The Replacement Soldier'
Pfc Dalton f. Williams of Merrill's Marauders
 & Mars Task Force
Click Here to read

The story of Squadron Leader R.G. Johnson's remarkable escape through Burma after being shot down over the Yaw Chaung
Click Here to read

Sapper Posties - Burma 1942 - 7
A Service Remembered

The Work of Wireless Observer Units - Click Here

160 Squadron Association Newsletter 16

Mules' Voice Chords Cut
Len Reynolds recollections

Captain Douglas Jung S.O.A.
Read how Capt Jung affected the political status of the Chinese Canadians - Please Click Here

'A Lancashire Chindit' - Paul Loseby's site
about Sgt Bill Clift MM - Please Click Here

A Medical Officer of the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade

A STORY THAT MUST BE READ -
The Banka Island Massacre

Pear Hill - January 1945
by Capt D.W. (Joe) Payne - 33rd Anti Tank Regt RA

The Role of the Chinese Canadian
by Willie Chong

Those Canadians who Jumped
Information compiled by Ken Joyce

Force 136 In Malaya
From the excellent 'The Dragon and The Maple Leaf'
by Marjorie Wong

Operation Tideway (Green)
From the excellent 'The Dragon and The Maple Leaf'
by Marjorie Wong

The Role of the Chinese Canadian
by Willie Chong

Force 136
by Willie Chong

How the Chinese Canadians became involved in the Burma Campaign 
   by Willie Chong

Bangkok, More Than Mining
Liberator whilst dropping mines

A “Scarey” step in Learning
Training wasn't easy either

A Squad of Little Men
357 Squadron dropping members of Force 136

Mission to Penang
Almost out of gas

Going to War in an Unarmed Ship
Merchant Navy Recollections

The Banka Island Massacre
telling of the murder of helpless Red Cross nurses

Capture and Treatment of Air Commodore L. Birchill
External link

Finding Jimmy Whalen's Hurricane
Submitted by Adrian Peter Toole

S.E.A.C. Report
The Eastern Fleet Rules the Indian Ocean

S.E.A.C. Report
How Admin Troops Backed-up the Fighting Men

S.E.A.C. Report
The Japs Invade India From The Chindwin - Click Here

A POW Torpedoed by the US
Bill Spooner (Royal Scots) Survival Story

The Rescue of the Marnix Van St. Aldegonde 
by Franklin E. Dailly Jnr & Ron Coward R.A.

The Sinking of the Suez Maru By the US Submarine Bonefish
by Dennis Courant

S.E.A.C. Report - Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's Address to the Press, August 1944 - Click Here

S.E.A.C. Report - Burma Front - Click Here

S.E.A.C. Report - The Enemy Strikes From the Arakan - Click Here

S.E.A.C. Report - Wingate's Skytroops Land in Burma - Click Here

S.E.A.C. Report - Stilwell Advances From Ledo - Click Here

Excerpts from
"The Friendly Firm Remembers"
Stories from the members of 194 Squadron

The Battle of Kohima
A Link to the British Forces web site & story

The Road Into China - May 1942
Contributed by Leo Raes R.A.F. W/Op

Friendly Fire - And - A Man Who Said 'No' to the Japs
By Richard De R. Channer

Capture of Ramree Island - Burma 1945

Burma 1942 Retreat
By E.H. Eason R.A.M.C.

The Naga Queen - A 'Must Read' Story of a Remarkable Woman and her husband who fought with and for the Naga Tribe against the Japanese
by Catriona Child

Endeavour Web
by Frank Rups

60 and 88 Column Chindits 1944
by Thomas Joesbury

To Burma And Beyond
by Mac Johnston

The Japanese Invasion
This is a link to Steve Rothwell's site

A War-time Experience
by Ken Rawlinson - a man who bought the cinema to the Burma jungle

Cloak and Dagger
An Airman's Story of Dropping Special Forces Into Action

The Air Offensive Over Burma
put together by the Reference Division - Ministry of Information

A Request for Help for an African Soldier from Burma

Japanese ship Suez Maru torpedoed by USS Bonefish 
all POWs onboard killed

Gliderborne Engineers during Operation Thursday
by Mark P. Zaitsoff  MAJ, EN – USAR (Ret)

Engineers by Glider to Myiktina
by Mark P. Zaitsoff  MAJ, EN – USAR (Ret)

The 4 Corps Engineers' Bridge at Pegu

Y Service
by John Behague

Dear Dad
by George L R Stevens of 129 Field Regt RA

When the Lads Came Down - A POW's Diary
George A. Ratcliffe (2nd Bn KOYLI)

Bangkok Escape to Rangoon
by Mollie Dods

The Shiny Ninth
by Murray Gillings

The Famous Umbrella

The Shweli Myitson

Pinwe

Sahmaw Chaung

The Mayu Tunnels
A Tribute to Bertrand Jones

A Fragment of Life
by A.W. Nunn

Guns By Parachute
by Jack Stimson

Extract from a tribute to “The Soldier” 
by Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Bt KCB CBE DSO.

The Tunnels on the Maungdaw to Buthidaung Road
By Major DS Young MC  

Jimmy Whalen's Hurricane Is Found (34 Sdn)

'The Irrawaddy Crossing' by Bill Pennington MC

Read S.E.A.C. Report on contribution by 7 Div

 S.E.A.C. Report on contribution by 17 Indian Div

S.E.A.C. Report on contribution by British 36 Div

Joe Arblaster - 258 Squadron

SEAC Souvenir Report on 2 Div

Whilst Memory Serves - Edwin Cookson

How The Families Had To Leave - Mollie Birch

'Quite an Experience' by Basil French 4th Field Regt

Attack by 2nd Bn Durham Light Infantry at Donbaik 18 March 1943    by Martin McLane

Springboard to Victory - the story of Lt. Jock Young RWK

Les Elgar's diary of the Somerset LI in the Arakan

258 Squadron RAF - Norman Jones' Account

A KOYLI Survivor's Story

'The Brigadier' from the 'TALES FROM KOHIMA' 

The Rangoon Air Combat of 29 February 1944 and its Aftermath - Matt Poole

Bugler Bob Parker - 1st Bn Northamptonshire Regt

The Retreat From Mandalay - Major Ronald Anderson

Sgt Norman Michie KOSB

Pte J.R. Robert RAMC/Chindits

Arthur Christie's life in Special Operations and as a POW

David B. Jones - a South Staffs Chindit

'Memories of Friends and Foes' by Gian Singh

COMPELLING READING - THE K.O.Y.L.I. Jan - Mar 1942

Outbreak of war in Mingaladon - Rex Bloore KOYLI - Burma Army Corps of Clerks

John Nunneley - King's African Rifles - Excellent story from Daily Mail of 27 December 2000

Chindit Ambush at Milestone 20 - Gordon Hughes

S.E.A.C. Report on 25 Division after Victory

The Story of the final push by 5 Div (from the S.E.A.C. Souvenir paper of the day)

The Story of the final push by 19 Div (from the S.E.A.C. Souvenir paper of the day)

Uncommon Misery: The 1944-45 Burma Campaign

To Naba & Beyond with 36th Division - Norman Morse

The Retreat From Rangoon - 1942 - J R Manning

Life With The South Staffs - March 1943 - JS Walley

The Battle of Donbaik - 18 March 1943

The Chin Hills Bn, Burma Frontier Force 1942-44

Force Viper - Royal Marines

Tanky's tales - The Tanks In Burma - Malcolm Connolly

Tales By Japanese Soldiers - New Book

The Story of the Border Regiment - Phillip J. Shears

A Padre with the Chindits - Rev Donald Mackay

When the Lads Come Down - Diary of a POW

Burma: The Last Battles, 1945 - Arthur Swinson

Extract from Report of Operations - 77th Infantry Brigade - Chindits

James Rae - Prisoners of War

Ron Reynolds - 9th Btn Royal Sussex Regt
Battle for Hill 60

Len Dawe - 9th Btn Royal Sussex Regt
Battle for Hill 60

Bob Croton - Royal Sussex Regt

Stan (Tommy) Thomson - Devonshire Regiment & Indian Army Corps of Clerks

James Reeve MM - Essex Regiment & RWAFF

Edward Sparkes - Fighter Pilot

Eric Thomas Egan - Royal Berkshire Regiment

Brian Hennessey - 29th Beach Assault Workshop

Ronald Boobier - 3PRU681 684 Photo Recce RAF

Philip J. Shears - Border Regiment

Bill Soanes - Royal Norfolk Regiment

Brian (Hoggy) Foster - 181 Signals Wing RAF

Len Prior - Royal Norfolk Regiment

H.R. Mills - RAF Regiment

Ken Matthews - Queens Royal Regt & 9th Btn Royal Sussex

Graham Bramley - HMS London & Pembroke

Fred Brown - Chindits

Fred Collison - Royal Norfolk Regiment

Syd Daft/Merryfield - LST 3016 & HMS Shropshire/Pitcairn

Norman (Dalla) Dale - 7th Leicestershire Regiment (Chindits)

Eric Hall - 181 Wing RAF

Tom (Blondy) Jarvis - 522/4th Field Regiment 5th Indian Div

Don Loseby - 28th Field Regt RA 19 Div

Alex Louis' Story
Article by Mia Stainsby - Vancouver Sun

Len Mawby - HMS Sandwich & HMS Ranee

Frank Spence - HMS Rotherham

Sam (Chalky) White - Chindits

Harry Winfield - Chindits