Online Collection

The Online Collection showcases a selection of our objects for you to discover and explore. This resource will grow as the Museum's Collection is catalogued and computerised, and as new acquisitions are added.

« New search

« Prev - 1 of 1 results - Next »

Japanese machine-gunners in Burma, 1942

Photograph, World War Two, Far East (1941-1945), 1942.

Japan attacked British Burma in order to secure its oil, cobalt and rice supplies. The operation also aimed to cut the Burma Road, a supply line from Rangoon to the Chinese forces fighting the Japanese in southern China. Capturing Burma would also protect the flank of the Japanese attack against Malaya and Singapore and provide a buffer zone to protect these territories once they were occupied.

From a collection of photographs collected by Brig Walter Lunt, Royal Army Educational Corps and Maj Gen James Lunt, 1923-1990.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 2009-10-25-33

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2009-10-25-33