For Your Tomorrow

, by Farquharson, Robert H.

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ISBN: 9781412015363 | 1412015367
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/27/2007

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Acknowledgements

Glossary

Introduction

viii

I Prelude to War

(10)

Japan plans for war: United States Javouas China, while England makes an alliance with Japan, and Canada muddles down the middle.

II The Burma Road

(9)

The old Burma Road, now the only supply route into China, is rebuilt. The Canadian missionary, Robert McLure, leads the first convoy.

III Day of Infamy

(6)

Japanese forces land on the Malayan coast, take Singapore, and invade Burma. Canadian airmen are there.

IV Debacle at Sittang Bridge

(4)

The Sittang Bridge is blown and more than half the British forces are left on the wrong side.

V The Fall of Rangoon

(18)

A Canadian doctor lives an idyllic life in Rangoon until the first bombs drop. As the city is besieged, General Alexander narrowly escapes rapture.

VI The Long Retreat

(15)

Fighting and retreating, the Allied forces slog through to India.

VII Fleeing the Enemy

(22)

The civilian exodus, Stilwell's trek to India, and two Canadian doctors are part of the retreat. Their diaries are the basis of this chapter.

VIII An Unquiet Interlude

(15)

The Army reorganizes. unrest in India. Flying the Hump and budding the Ledo Road. Canadian fighter pilots operate from Calcutta's main street.

IX Renewing the Battle

100

(22)

The Fast Arakan Expedition; Major Hoey wins the MC. Flight Sergeant Bob Bates meets Bob McLure in China; the First Chindit Expedition.

X The Battle of the Admin Box

122

(17)

Completion of the Bangkok to Burma railway speeds Japanese preparations for the invasion of India. General Slim launches the Second Arakan Expedition and Major Hwy wins the VC. RAF establishes air superiority.

XI The Second Chindit Expedition

139

(37)

The Chindits go in by glider and thirteen RCAF officers go with them. Brigadier Mike Calvert's Canadian platoon leader is killed. Major Faulkner is the Chindit's medical officer.

XII Imphal and Kohima

176

(23)

The siege of Imphal and of Kohima results in the greatest land defeat the Japanese Army ever suffered. A Canadian doctor works through the Imphal siege and ends up as Mountbatten's personal surgeon.

XIII The Canadian Officer Party

199

(10)

Despite Mackenzie King's veto on Canadian army involvement in Burma, 23 Canadian officers fight in Burma for four months in late 1944.

XIV 435 and 436 Squadrons, RCAF

209

(20)

Two Canadian transport squadrons arrive on the Burma front just at the moment when they are most needed.

XV The Road to Mandalay, via Meiktila

229

(17)

General Slim's stratagem for taking Mandalay. Canadian frogmen help in the Irrawaddy crossing and 435 and 436 help with air supply.

XVI Radar, Clandestines, and Irregulars

246

(27)

Seven hundred Canadian radar technicians in Burma. French Canadians and Chinese Canadians are active behind the lines. Roland Bacon and the Korean Officer Party.

XVII The Burma Bombers

273

(11)

How it happened that half the Liberator crews in Burma were Canadians, and what they did.

XVIII Dracula and the Retaking of Rangoon

284

(14)

The Fourteenth Army loses the race to Rangoon. Canadian jumpmasters supervise the paradrop on Rangoon. Freedom for the Rangoon POWs.

XIX Mopping Up

298

(12)

The thoroughly disorganized Japanese Army is annihilated by the Allies and the weather. Canadians supply Karen guerrillas and succour POWs. Chinese Canadians drop into Malaya, and a Japanese Canadian tells the Japanese Army the war is over.

XX Conclusion

310

(4)

Bibliography

314

(5)

Index

319

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