Battle of the Sittang Bend
The Battle of the Sittang Bend and the Japanese Breakout across Pegu Yomas were linked Japanese military operations during the Burma Campaign, which took place nearly at the end of World War II. Surviving elements of the Imperial Japanese Army who had been driven into the Pegu Yoma attempted to break out eastwards, to join other Japanese troops retreating from the British forces. The break-out was the objective of the Japanese Twenty-Eighth Army with support at first from the Thirty-third Army and later the Fifteenth Army. As a preliminary, the Japanese Thirty-third Army attacked Allied positions in the Sittang Bend, near the mouth of the river, to distract the Allies. The British had been alerted to the break-out attempt and it ended calamitously, with many losses and some formations bein
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Battle of the Sittang Bend
The Battle of the Sittang Bend and the Japanese Breakout across Pegu Yomas were linked Japanese military operations during the Burma Campaign, which took place nearly at the end of World War II. Surviving elements of the Imperial Japanese Army who had been driven into the Pegu Yoma attempted to break out eastwards, to join other Japanese troops retreating from the British forces. The break-out was the objective of the Japanese Twenty-Eighth Army with support at first from the Thirty-third Army and later the Fifteenth Army. As a preliminary, the Japanese Thirty-third Army attacked Allied positions in the Sittang Bend, near the mouth of the river, to distract the Allies. The British had been alerted to the break-out attempt and it ended calamitously, with many losses and some formations bein
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The Battle of the Sittang Bend ...... owers in the Second World War.
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シッタン作戦(シッタンさくせん)とは、太平洋戦争末期の194 ...... 湾曲部(ベンド)における戦闘をシッタン・ベンド作戦とも呼ぶ。
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* 95 killed, 322 wounded & 1,600 non-combat
Total: 2,000
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British Empire
Empire of Japan
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1945-08-07
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DecisiveBritishvictory
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*15th Army
*28th Army
*33rd Army
Burma Area Army(remnants)
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Total: 14,000
* 8,500 killed, 740 captured & over 5,000 non combat
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The Battle of the Sittang Bend ...... osses and some formations bein
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シッタン作戦(シッタンさくせん)とは、太平洋戦争末期の194 ...... 湾曲部(ベンド)における戦闘をシッタン・ベンド作戦とも呼ぶ。
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Battle of the Sittang Bend
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シッタン作戦
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Battle of the Sittang Bend
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