Burma supply route cleared - Jan 30, 1945 - HISTORY.com

Thanks TSgt Joe C. for letting us know that on January 30, 1945 the vital supply route linking India to China through Burma was finally cleared for Allied military transports on this day in 1945. The first convoy of 133 trucks under British General Mountbatten had left Ledo several weeks earlier, but could not enter China until the Americans were able to remove the last Japanese troops, retreating southward from a Chinese counter-offensive. Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek said the road had broken Japan’s siege of China.
Lines of communication and supply are strategically critical. Merrill's Marauders and other infantry units did yeoman's work to clear the Japanese and drive them back.
First convoy travels the Stilwell road after its completion in Burma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2wssXRZR5M

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