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Burma Road
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Burma Road
A former highway extending about 1,126 km (700 mi) generally northeastward through mountainous country from northeast Burma (now Myanmar) to Kunming, China. It was a vital transportation route for wartime supplies to the Chinese government from 1938 to 1946.
Burma Road
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(Historical Terms) the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
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Having experienced the Jim Crow brutality of being assigned to construction of the Ledo Road through Burma to China for the use of the forces of Chiang Kai-shek and plagued by a deteriorating mental state, Perry shot and killed a white officer before fleeing into the jungle in front of a massive manhunt.
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