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Rangoon, Burma was captured by...

history · 03 May 1945 · 79 years ago

Rangoon, Burma was captured by Indian 26th Division with little resistance. Fleeing Japanese were slaughtered not just by British and Commonwealth troops but by Burmese guerrillas and tribesmen who rose up against their former occupiers. 

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