Officials from Myanmar (formally Burma) recently declared a remote valley surrounding the old Ledo Road - a once vital supply route for the Allies in WWII - the nation's largest wildlife sanctuary, ...

BUILDING the Ledo Road was a project without parallel in military history. It is a broad, allweather, motor-freight highway running from Ledo, a tiny native bazaar in northeastern Assam, India, to a ...

Documentary - Documentary about the construction of the Stilwell Road--originally called The Ledo Road--a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo, Burma, during World War II. The road, which was ...

This 1944 cover photo shows Chinese engineers constructing a hand-made wooden bridge across the Tanai Hka River in Myanmar, what then was Burma. The bridge was a key crossing for the Ledo Road, a ...

Allied troops in north Burma and southeast China were only 26 miles apart across the savage mountains. They fought toward each other in wild, monsoon-sodden terrain (see map). But even if they ...

The Japanese in northern and western Burma were in full retreat last week. Only at Akyab, principal port on the west coast, and around Wanting, on the old Burma Road, were Allied troops in close ...