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Battle of Pegu
Part of the Burma campaign, the South-East Asian theatre of World War II and the Pacific Theater of World War II
The Battle of Pegu was an engagement in the Burma campaign in the Second World War. Fought on 6 and 7 March 1942, it concerned the defence of Rangoon (now Yangon) in Burma (now Myanmar). Japanese forces closed in on the British Indian Army who were deployed near Pegu (now Bago).
With the 17th Infantry Division decimated and scattered, the forces available for the whole of Burma were the 1st Burma Division and the 7th Armoured Brigade, equipped with American-made Stuart or "Honey" light tanks. The British commanders had already decided not to contest Rangoon, but their new strategy relied on convincing the Japanese that Rangoon would be heavily defended.[1]
British/Indian forces fighting at Pegu were the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, and surviving elements of the 17th Infantry; the West Yorkshire Regiment, 1st Battalion, 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, and the 4th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment.[2]
which held Pegu. On the same day, as part of Operation Dracula, a composite Gurkha parachute battalion landed on Elephant Point at the mouth of the Rangoon...
thought Upper Burma had been won, and withdrew two-thirds of the invasion force back to Pegu, leaving just a third for what he considered a mop-up operation...
fallen after the Battle of Pegu and Burcorps was retreating to Prome, though 17th Indian Division carried out a number of raids as it withdrew, and the...
actions at the BattleofPegu and Taukkyan Roadblock, the Japanese went on to take Rangoon unopposed, on 9 March. Fortunately for the survivors of 17th Division...
The Battleof the Sittang Bend and the Japanese Breakout across Pegu Yomas were linked Japanese military operations during the Burma Campaign, which took...
(tuberculosis) The BattleofPegu, concerning the defence of Rangoon, began. Attack on Broome: Japanese fighter planes attacked the town of Broome, Western...
Taukkyan-Pegu road, after reports of extensive Japanese infiltration. The battalion held this position overnight, and early on the 7th, following the Battle of...
well under-strength before the battle started. The BattleofPegu in March was carried out by the surviving elements of the 17th Division and the 7th British...
advance from Imphal to Rangoon, the coastal amphibious assaults, and the BattleofPegu Yomas, August 1944 to August 1945. Ceylon 1942. For operations against...
generals, lost heart and fled Pegu for Prome (Pyay) where his brother-in-law Narapati was king. Toungoo took the capital city ofPegu without firing a shot....
Bayinnaung who cut off the spear's wooden handle while charging on at the battleofPegu. (Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 78): Thadingyut 944 ME = 27 September 1582...
Bayinnaung, who installed Maha Thammaracha as a vassal king of Ayutthaya. After six years in Pegu, c. 1570, Prince Naret and his brother the White Prince...
through in their 1538–1539 campaign, and captured Pegu. Kyawhtin Nawrahta made his name in the Battleof Naungyo in which his light forces decisively defeated...
1945 Battleof Lashio – March 1945 Battleof Hsipaw – March 1945 Battle for Pegu – 27–30 April 1945 Battleof Elephant Point – 1–2 May 1945 Battleof Waterberg...
in Burmese history for his epic struggles against King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy Pegu in the Forty Years' War (1385–1424). As king, Minkhaung continued...
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