The Ledo Road (Burmese: လီဒိုလမ်းမ) was an overland connection between British India and China, built during World War II to enable the Western Allies...
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Allies in 1945 after the completion of the Ledo Road. Some parts of the old road are still visible today. The road is 717 miles (1,154 km) long and runs through...
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Lisu people (section Arrival via the Ledo Road)
governor who ruled the region from Lakhimpur, Assam (the section of Ledo road between Ledo and Shingbwiyang was only opened in 1943). Most of the Lisu who...
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Look up ledo or Ledo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ledo may refer to: Ledo, Assam, India, a town Ledo, Jharkhand, India, a village and former Zamindari...
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Tenth Air Force, the 1st Air Commando Group, the engineers who built the Ledo Road, the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), popularly known as "Merrill's...
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using the Ledo Road, and the airlift operation continued in operation until the end of the war. When supplies were flowing over the Ledo Road in large...
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station in India. The town is also the starting point of Ledo Road, also known as Stilwell Road, a highway built during World War II for use by American...
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Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan which succeeded in opening the Ledo Road. Joseph Stilwell intended to make a rapid march against Myitkyina, prophesying...
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Burma India Theater, directed aid to China and prepared to construct the Ledo Road to link India and China. In 1943, the Thai Phayap Army invasion headed...
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part. It is located 2.5 km to the southwest of the Ledo Road, formerly called Stilwell Road, the road the Western Allies started building in 1942 to supply...
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