Ba Maw
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Ba Maw, known honorifically as Dr. Ba Maw, was a Burmese lawyer and politician, active during the interwar period and Second World War. He was the first Burma Premier and head of State of Burma from 1
Ba Maw in 1943
The Greater East Asia Conference in November 1943. The participants were (L–R): Ba Maw, Zhang Jinghui, Wang Jingwei, Hideki Tojo, Wan Waithayakon, José P. Laurel, Subhas Chandra Bose
Burma Independence Army
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The Burma Independence Army was a pro-Japanese and revolutionary army that fought for the end of British rule in Burma by assisting the Japanese in their conquest of the country in 1942 during World W
Ba Maw
…the Japanese. On 4 June, during the Japanese occupation of Burma, Ba Maw was made Chief Civilian Administrator, while Aung San agreed to reform the Burmese Independence Army as the Burma Defense Army. On 1 August 1942, Ba Maw was inaugurated as the head of the Burmese government. As the war situation gradually turned against…
Major General Aung San as Minister of Defence, 1943
Keiji Suzuki as Major General
The Burma Independence Army enter Rangoon in early 1942
Burmese people and soldiers of the BIA with their flag