Burma Road

American  

noun

1. a road extending from Lashio, Myanmar (Burma), to Chungking, China: used during World War II to supply Allied military forces in China.

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Burma Road British  

noun

1. the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China

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Etymology

Origin of Burma Road

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

During World War II in 1945, Allied cargo soldiers began distributing supplies in China over the newly reopened Burma Road.

From US News • Jan. 28, 2015

Army during his senior year of high school in 1944 in Waynesboro, Va., and hauled supplies from Burma into China on the dreaded Burma Road.

From Washington Post

The American Baptist Foreign Mission sent him and his wife "Tiny" to take charge of a 20-bed hospital at Namkham, a village near the Chinese border on the not-yet-built Burma Road.

From Time Magazine Archive

He found time also to work among American soldiers, became known to thousands of G.I.s as the "Bishop of the Burma Road."

From Time Magazine Archive

Even today we are flying as much lend-lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma Road, flying it over mountains 17,000 feet high, flying blind through sleet and snow.

From State of the Union Address by Roosevelt, Franklin Delano