The squadron supported Allied ground forces in northern Burma; covered bombers that attacked Rangoon, Insein, and other targets; bombed enemy airfields at Myitkyina and Bhamo; and conducted patrol and reconnaissance missions to help protect transport planes that flew The Hump route between India and China.
Basic Education High School No. 3 Myitkyina is a public high school located in Myitkyina, Myanmar.
In slightly more than five months of combat behind Japanese lines in Burma, the Marauders, who supported the X Force, advanced 750 miles through some of the harshest jungle terrain in the world, fought in 5 major engagements (Walawbum, Shaduzup, Inkangahtawng, Nhpum Ga, and Myitkyina) and engaged in combat with the Japanese Army on thirty-two separate occasions.
Prospected by the British in the late 19th Century as a possible railway route from India to Myitkyina in north Burma through the Hukawng Valley, the pass became famous during World War II for being the initial obstacle encountered by American General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's forces in their effort to build a land route to isolated China after the fall of Burma to the Japanese.
Pethia didi is a species of cyprinid fish which has only been recorded in the vicinity of Myitkyina and Indawgyi Lake in the north of Myanmar.
Pethia nankyweensis is a species of cyprinid fish found in Myanmar where it is known from smaller streams in the area of Myitkyina.
Casualties had been heavy and Calvert decided to move to "Blackpool", a new defensive perimeter, further north between Mawlu and Mogaung, before they could get there, Blackpool fell and Calvert learnt that the Chinese and Americans were approaching Myitkyina, receiving orders that his brigade was to attack Mogaung.
He was ordained a priest on March 27, 1965, and appointed Bishop of Myitkyina on April 3, 1976.
Forrester and his navigator, Carrington (Lyndon Brook), on a routine non-combat flight to Myitkyina, with Flight Lieutenant Blore (Maurice Denham) as passenger in the Mosquito's bomb bay, is forced to go down in a remote desert area of Burma's central plain.
The area from Yangon to Myitkyina is mostly monsoon forest, while peninsular Malaysia south of Mawlamyine is primarily rainforest, with some overlap between the two.
During January 1945, they flew patrols over Myitkyina and Bhamo and twelve local tactical interceptions.
By the start of 1944, the new road had reached the far side of the Patkai mountains, and Stilwell was preparing to advance on Kamaing and Myitkyina in northern Burma.
The Japanese 18th Division faced the American and Chinese Northern Combat Area Command (NCAC) under Lieutenant General Daniel Isom Sultan advancing south from Myitkyina and Mogaung which the Allies had secured in 1944, while the Japanese 56th Division faced the large Chinese Yunnan armies led by Wei Lihuang.
Constant punitive measures were carried on by the military police; but in December 1892, a police column proceeding to establish a post at Sima was heavily attacked, and simultaneously the town of Myitkyina was raided by Kachins.
Laja Yang is a village about 20 kilometre from Laiza on the way from Myitkyina to Bhamo in Kachin State, Myanmar.