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Operation Navvy

'Navvy' was a British undertaking to build the so-called Tiddim Road across the Chin hills close to the frontier of India and Burma as a means of supplying the major base area being developed on the Manipur plain at Imphal to support operations in central Burma (1943/44).

Basic overview

Start date: 30 November 1942
End date: 30 November 1943

Scope: Medium
Nature: Land, Logistics/communications
Status: Implemented

Theatre

Burma

Nations involved

Protagonists
UK
Antagonists
Japan

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Last update: 18/08/22