World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangon" id="mw0g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Yangon">Rangoon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar" id="mw0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Myanmar">Burma</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" id="mw1A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Kingdom">British</a>.<sup about="#mwt134" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"}}' id="cite_ref-24" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_8#cite_note-24" id="mw1Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 24;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw1g">[24]</span></a></sup>
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