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When Lashio, Burma, fell to Japan, a Chinese division fled to India. In June 1942 Gen. [[Joseph Warren Stilwell]], American theater commander in [[CBI Theater|China, Burma, and India]], conceived a project to use this Chinese army in India to retake north Burma and build a new 400-mile road to link up with the Burma Road at Wanting. Chinese and British allies showed no enthusiasm for a second Burma campaign, urging instead an all-American air transport route "over the Hump" to aid China. The U.S, compromised by undertaking both strategies, at incredible cost. Stilwell was fiercely determined to build the road despite monsoons, jungle, disease and Japanese attacks.  

When Lashio, Burma, fell to Japan, a Chinese division fled to India. In June 1942 Gen. [[Joseph Warren Stilwell]], American theater commander in [[CBI Theater|China, Burma, and India]], conceived a project to use this Chinese army in India to retake north Burma and build a new 400-mile road to link up with the Burma Road at Wanting. Chinese and British allies showed no enthusiasm for a second Burma campaign, urging instead an all-American air transport route "over the Hump" to aid China. The U.S, compromised by undertaking both strategies, at incredible cost. Stilwell was fiercely determined to build the road despite monsoons, jungle, disease and Japanese attacks.  

==Ledo Road==

==Ledo Road==

The '''Ledo Road''' was a 400 mile dirt road through jungle and mountains designed as the major supply route to China once Rangoon was occupied by the Japanese. In addition supplies were flown to Kumin "over the hump" (that is, over the high Himalayas.)  The road, with two 4-inch oil pipelines alongside, was built in extraordinarily difficult conditions to stretch between Ledo, India, to connect with the existing 720-mile stretch of the Burma Road, which linked northern to Burma to Kunming, China.  The first convoys in January, 1945, brought supplies to China across 1100 miles in 24 days.   

The '''Ledo Road''' was a 400-mile dirt road through jungle and mountains designed as the major supply route to China once Rangoon was occupied by the Japanese. In addition supplies were flown to Kumin "over the hump" (that is, over the high Himalayas.)  The road, with two 4-inch oil pipelines alongside, was built in extraordinarily difficult conditions to stretch between Ledo, India, to connect with the existing 720-mile stretch of the Burma Road, which linked northern to Burma to Kunming, China.  The first convoys in January, 1945, brought supplies to China across 1100 miles in 24 days.   

[[Image:Cbi-Ledo-road3.jpg|thumb|350px|Ledo road near Myitkyina, Burma]]

[[Image:Cbi-Ledo-road3.jpg|thumb|350px|Ledo road near Myitkyina, Burma]]