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ALLIES PLOT TO EXPEL JAPAN FROM BURMA
ByNorm Haskett February 1, 2014 Reading Time: 6 minutes

New Delhi, India · February 1, 1943 On this date in 1943 in New Delhi, delegates from Great Britain, the U.S., and China opened a conference to develop a campaign plan (codenamed Anakim) for the reconquest of Burma (also called Myanmar), then a British colony, and to reopen the land supply route to China. The…

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AMERICANS ADVISED TO LEAVE JAPAN
ByNorm Haskett January 9, 2014 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Washington, D.C. · January 9, 1941 On this date in 1941 in Washington, D.C., the U.S. State Department advised American citizens to leave Japan. Two summers earlier the State Department had informed Japan that it would not renew the 1911 Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the two countries, leaving the U.S. free in January…

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