A vital supply route linking India to China through Burma is finally cleared for Allied military transports on this day in 1945. The first convoy of 133 trucks under British General Mountbatten left Ledo several weeks earlier, but could not enter China until the Americans were able to remove the last Japanese troops, retreating southward from a Chinese counter-offensive. Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek said the road had broken Japan's siege of China.
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Jan 30, 1945:
Burma supply route cleared
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This Week in History, Jan 30 - Feb 5
- Jan 30, 1649
- King Charles I executed for treason
- Jan 30, 1835
- Shots fired in the House of Representatives
- Jan 30, 1945
- Burma supply route cleared
- Jan 30, 1972
- Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland
- Jan 31, 1606
- The death of Guy Fawkes
- Jan 31, 1917
- Germany resumes submarine warfare
- Jan 31, 1968
- Viet Cong attack U.S. Embassy
- Jan 31, 1971
- Apollo 14 departs for the moon
- Feb 01, 1790
- First session of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Feb 01, 1908
- Portuguese king and heir assassinated
- Feb 01, 1979
- Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
- Feb 02, 1943
- Battle of Stalingrad ends
- Feb 02, 1971
- Idi Amin takes power in Uganda
- Feb 02, 1980
- ABSCAM operation revealed
- Feb 03, 1924
- Woodrow Wilson dies
- Feb 03, 1953
- Cousteau publishes The Silent World
- Feb 03, 1959
- The day the music died
- Feb 03, 1966
- Lunik 9 soft-lands on lunar surface
- Feb 03, 1994
- Clinton ends Vietnam trade embargo
- Feb 04, 1789
- First U.S. president elected
- Feb 04, 1861
- States meet to form Confederacy
- Feb 04, 1969
- PLO is founded
- Feb 05, 1631
- Roger Williams arrives in America
- Feb 05, 1917
- Mexican constitution proclaimed
- Feb 05, 1917
- Immigration act passed over Wilson's veto
- Feb 05, 1937
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