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A major battleground, Burma was devastated during the Second World War. By March 1942, within months after they entered the war, Japanese troops had advanced on
Rangoon and the British administration had collapsed. A Burmese Executive Administration headed by Ba Maw was established by the Japanese in
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August 1942. Beginning in late 1944, allied troops launched a series of offensives that led to the end of
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