{"id":4992,"date":"2014-03-03T21:05:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2014-03-03T21:05:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:05:50","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-2-8-march-1942-the-fall-of-rangoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=4992","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 2&#8211;8 March 1942: The Fall of Rangoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_4991\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=4991\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4991\" alt=\"Victorious Japanese soldiers in front of Government House, Rangoon, March 1942 [Public domain, wiki]\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wrangoon.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wrangoon.jpg 400w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wrangoon-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wrangoon-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victorious Japanese soldiers in front of Government House, Rangoon, March 1942 [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>Burma: This week in the war, 7 March 1942, British forces evacuated Rangoon, the Burmese capital. Before leaving, they destroyed the dockyard installations and the oil refineries. Japanese troops had landed in the Irrawaddy delta. Next day, 8 March, the Japanese occupied Rangoon.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_4996\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=4996\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4996\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4996\" alt=\"Japanese invasion of Burma and India [Public domain; author: Mike Young]\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wburma1-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wburma1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wburma1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wburma1.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese invasion of Burma and India [Public domain; author: Mike Young]<\/p><\/div>Despite their losses, the British managed to disengage and withdraw into central Burma with a view to joining up with Chinese forces in the north.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese campaign in Burma would last well into 1945 and take them into India. Weather (monsoons) affected operations and diseases such as malaria took a heavy toll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burma: This week in the war, 7 March 1942, British forces evacuated Rangoon, the Burmese capital. Before leaving, they destroyed the dockyard installations and the oil refineries. Japanese troops had landed in the Irrawaddy delta. Next day, 8 March, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=4992\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[661,660,659],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-burma","tag-irrawaddy","tag-rangoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}