✦ History

Part of Burma campaign

Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay

January 1 – March 29, 1945 · Battle site

Result Allied victory

The Fourteenth Army's decisive battles in central Burma: a feint at Mandalay and a thrust to Meiktila that broke the Japanese army in Burma.

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Axis

Allies

Other

Japan
United Kingdom
British Raj
United States
Heitarō Kimura military commander
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
2,307

Units

Fifteenth Army (Japan) 2nd Division (Japan) 53rd Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 54th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
Fourteenth Army (United Kingdom) 17 Mountain Division (India) 2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 254th Indian Tank Brigade
Indian National Army

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