China-Burma-India theater
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The China-Burma-India (CBI) theater was created by the U.S., Britain and China and operated 1941 to 1945 to fight Japan on the mainland of Asia.
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- Rooney David. Burma Victory: Imphal, Kohima and the Chindit Issue. (1992).
- Schaller Michael. The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945. (1979). online edition
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Primary Sources
- Chiang Kai-Shek. The Collected Wartime Messages of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, 1937-1945, (1946) online edition
- Stilwell, Joseph Warren. The Stilwell papers edited by Theodore H. White, (1958).
- Stone, James H. ed. Crisis Fleeting: Original Reports on Military Medicine in India and Burma
in the Second World War, (1969) online edition