Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 33 minutes ago
KET is delighted to present this webinar with guest speaker Lt Col Mike Tickner (retd), introduced by Dr Robert Lyman MBE.
The Burma Campaign was fought in the most demanding environment of the Second World War. Daily, the 14th Army’s logisticians resupplied Indian, Gurkha, African and British soldiers along the war’s longest, most fragile and least resourced supply chain. From factories in UK, America and India, stores were moved over the mountains, through the freezing rain of Nagaland, jungle and mangrove swamp, across mile-wide rivers and through Burma’s dry belt.
Without the infrastructure to support modern mechanised warfare, innovation and adaption were essential. Every possible means to resupply, both ancient and modern, needed to be employed. Air resupply was used more extensively than any other operational theatre yet elephants and pack animals were equally common.
To have defeated the Japanese with the level of resupply available to the Allies in North Western Europe would have been a magnificent achievement. To have achieved victory in the Far East with such limited resources stands out as a truly inspirational story of endurance, dedication, innovation and adaption.
KET is delighted to present this webinar with guest speaker Lt Col Mike Tickner (retd), introduced by Dr Robert Lyman MBE.
The Burma Campaign was fought in the most demanding environment of the Second World War. Daily, the 14th Army’s logisticians resupplied Indian, Gurkha, African and British soldiers along the war’s longest, most fragile and least resourced supply chain. From factories in UK, America and India, stores were moved over the mountains, through the freezing rain of Nagaland, jungle and mangrove swamp, across mile-wide rivers and through Burma’s dry belt.
Without the infrastructure to support modern mechanised warfare, innovation and adaption were essential. Every possible means to resupply, both ancient and modern, needed to be employed. Air resupply was used more extensively than any other operational theatre yet elephants and pack animals were equally common.
To have defeated the Japanese with the level of resupply available to the Allies in North Western Europe would have been a magnificent achievement. To have achieved victory in the Far East with such limited resources stands out as a truly inspirational story of endurance, dedication, innovation and adaption.
