Chindits (members of General Orde Wingate's Allied commando force in Burma) travelling through the jungle with their donkeys. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

28th August 1945: Military Commanders of the Japanese forces arrive in Rangoon to negotiate the surrender of Japanese forces in South-East Asia. The formal surrender is expected in Singapore when they will meet Lord Louis Mountbatten. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

circa 1943: Children play in the bombed out streets of Rangoon, Burma. (Photo by A. J. Swift/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

3rd August 1940: Men heaving stones down a mountain side to clear away a landslip on The Burma Road. The road is 726 miles long, often only 9ft wide, and joins Chungking the wartime capital of China to a railway terminus at Lashio for enrouting to Rangoon (Photo by Captain Abercrombie/Picture Post/Getty Images)

1944: Allied Troops clambering up a rough, precipitous hillside in a typical Arakan hill country during a daylight attack. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

A British General and a Brigadier from an Indian division meet to discuss the recent Allied victory on the Imphal-Kohima road in Burma (modern Myanmar), 1944. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

General Sir William Slim (1891 - 1970) leaving the Savoy Hotel on his way to the Guildhall, London, where he is to give a speech on the Burma Campaign, 11th July 1945. Slim commanded the British Fourteenth Army during the campaign. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

March 1945: British and Indian Troops of the 14th Army in Burma, advancing on a town 80 miles south of Mandalay. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Chinese and American troops cross a pontoon bridge over the Mogaung River, on their way to Kamaing in Burma during World War II, 19th June 1944. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Louis Mountbatten (1900 - 1979), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British naval commander, statesman and supreme allied commander south-east Asia (1943 - 1945) looking at an operations map of Burma. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

July 1942: Chinese Nationalist military leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek (1887 - 1975) with Madame Chiang (1897 - 2003) and US Lieutenant General Joseph W Stilwell at their meeting in Maymyo, Burma. It was at this meeting that the Chinese leader informed his military staff that General Stilwell would lead them in their stand against the Japanese forces. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Burmese locals show little interest in the arrival of the Japanese occupying forces in their village, during World War II, circa 1942. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)