One of the main reasons the Burma Campaign was formed was to grant independence back into Burma and hold back the Japanese intruders that had thought overtaking Burma would be a big step in winning WW2, but it wasn't easy for the Jap's as they weren't used to this jungle war, one of the most breath taking jungle fights ever that had a big step and taught a huge lesson to jungle fights after the Burma war. ... "This Japanese seemed unstoppable", said General Vinegar Joe Stilwell with his troops as they walked through the jungles of Burma for a long 29 days of long exhausting tre...

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Once they were on the ground they spotted an enemy solider and pursued him into the jungle in the hopes of capturing him alive for interrogation. ... B-Company had moved through the jungle and contact was made with the NVA forces. ... The 2nd platoon was still cut-off from A-Company; they stayed in the jungle fighting with very little hope of returning. ...

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During the first decades of the postwar period, its power and influence expanded until it was finally checked in the jungles of Southeast Asia and by more fundamental changes in the international distribution of economic and military power. ...

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According to www.barnesandnoble.com, it was the book that shattered America's deliberate indifference to the fate of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the years since it was first published it has become a basic text on that war. ...

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• Grade Level: High School