The Battle of Pakokku and Irrawaddy River operations were a series of battles fought between the British Indian Army and the Imperial Japanese Army and allied forces over the successful Allied Burma campaign on the China Burma India Theater during World War II. The battles and operations were instrumental in facilitating the eventual capture of Rangoon in summer 1945.
Men of the Dorset Regiment crossing the Irrawaddy River
7th Indian Infantry Division
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The 7th Infantry Division is a war-formed infantry division, part of the British Indian Army that saw service in the Burma Campaign.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, talking to British officers of the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers near the Arakan front, December 1943.
Men of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), on patrol aboard an assault boat on the Pegu Canal near Waw, July 1945.