The Forgotten War: Canadians in Burma

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In 1939, the world attention was focused on Europe, where Nazi Germany executed its plan for world domination. With the world preoccupied, Japan quietly made its own goals for the expansion of its empire. Japan was already at war with China, but few in the west knew just how strong Japan had grown. After attacking Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Japan advanced quickly, and was on the doorstep of India in just a few months.

Surrounded by India and China, Burma is a land filled with thick jungles, desert plains, and mountain tops reaching 20,000 feet. This battlefront, and its veterans, has received as little attention today as it did 60 years ago. Of the 8,000 Canadians that fought in Burma from 1942 to 1945, few remain to tell their stories.