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Burma / Myanmar: Troops of the (British) 11th East Africa Division on the road to Kalewa during the Chindwin River Crossing, Sagaing, November 1944

Burma / Myanmar: Troops of the (British) 11th East Africa Division on the road to Kalewa during the Chindwin River Crossing, Sagaing, November 1944

The 11th East Africa Infantry Division was composed of soldiers from the modern-day nations of Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The division fought with the British Fourteenth Army in Burma (Myanmar) during the Burma Campaign.

In the later part of 1944, the division pursued the Japanese retreating from Imphal in Northeast India down the Kabaw Valley in Burma and established bridgeheads over the Chindwin River.

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